Threats and false reports of shooters have inundated U.S. schools and colleges for months. Schools in Pennsylvania were the latest targeted by so-called swatting. Here is a look at the issues involved:
Few regions of the country have been spared from such calls and the disruptions they cause.
“We treated it as a real incident,” Stangrecki said. Another threat at a nearby Catholic school had worried parents gathered outside. At U.S. schools and colleges, 175 people have been killed in 15 mass shootings that resulted in the deaths of four or more people, not including the perpetrator — from 1999′s Columbine High School massacre to Monday’s shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. That’s according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, in addition to other AP reporting.Such calls have proven dangerous and even outright deadly.
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