“Even though there’s a victim-offender overlap, just because you were victimized doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to be an offender,” Peguero, the ASU professor, said.
That includes potential perpetrators having previous contact with law enforcement and grievances with classmates, the latter being the most common motive for shootings, according to a Secret Service report, with the caveat that there is no profile for a student attacker. While SROs statewide use the summertime to brush up on training at their agencies and through the Florida Association of School Resource Officers, this year’s conference held by the Secret Service, which runs the National Threat Assessment Center, pointed to commonalities between different cases that school officials should look out for. “This SRO will not wait at all - no hesitation, no asking for permission to go in - to address an active shooter or any intruder on a school campus,” he said. After the shooting in Uvalde, López said additional training was needed to prepare for the real thing. The trainees were guided through the halls by analysts of the real-time crime center, which López aims to later equip with weapons recognition software.Īgency policy has allowed SROs to confront school shooters since 2019, following the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland a year before, where a deputy was accused of hiding instead of confronting the gunman. Video shown at a press conference ahead of the beginning of the school year offered a glimpse into what the summer’s active shooter training looked like, with roleplaying scenarios involving a suspect being apprehended while others resulted in them being shot by deputies. The facility recently gained access to school surveillance feeds, allowing it to guide deputies during campus shootings. Sheriff Marcos López talks to the media during a tour of the new Real-Time Crime Center, on Wednesday, September 22, 2021. “If anything I can do possible to help minimize or eliminate a potential future active shooter by implementing some of these … it’s something that I’m trying,” López said in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, moments after he returned from East Lake Elementary School, where he hosted an anti-bullying assembly. Sheriff Marcos López said his deputies are also implementing an anti-bullying initiative at the county’s elementary schools while coordinating with mental health professionals to address problematic behavior before it escalates. In sessions totaling an extra 40 training hours, the deputies were trained to pursue campus shooters without delay while relying for direction on the agency’s real-time crime center, which recently gained access to school surveillance feeds. Part of the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office’s response was to up the intensity of active shooter training for school resource deputies. Law enforcement and school authorities across Florida had a busy summer, as discussions continue in the aftermath of the May shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where officers stood by as 19 students and two teachers were killed.
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