A terrible start for the new school year in college complexes across the country Swating and fake danger This has stopped the students themselves in classrooms and dozens of police officers to participate in schools.
From Erizona to Pennsylvania, university is experiencing Haux calls, including reports that students were shot and killed with a sound of bullets in the background, only for officials to show that no real threat was ever present.
The bets of such emergency reactions were inspired by home on Wednesday, when A real shoot at a Catholic school Two children died in Miniapolis and 17 others were injured.
There are fake threats against schools No new event But in recent years, fuel, experts say that infamous and meditation, are combined with difficulty in bringing justice to those who cheat.
“It is unfortunately, nothing new. It has been happening mainly in the K -12 schools for the last few years, and now it has found its way for the complexes, it will appear. I mean, the overroaching is that people do this, because it works,” Amy Klinger, the founder and director and director of the programs in the school safety networks.
Klinger said, “What are they doing?
The University of Villnoova, Canasus State University and Arizona are among more than a dozen colleges, who have seen the shooter Haux active in the previous week.
Some of the fake calls included noise in the gun tablet in the background, a person said that the students were dying. But University of south carolinaA viral social media post showed a student to a student carrying an umbrella that was wrong for a rifle by many.
Following such calls, in questions, colleges asked students to “run, hide, fight”, while dozens of officers ran the scene.
Administrators are haunted by previous massacres, such as a 2007 Virginia Tech shooting in which 33 people died, and Michigan State University shot in 2023, killing three.
“Law enforcement has no choice to immediately respond and answer, so they have to send an alert to the students. They do not have time to check if it is a deception, so where is this call coming from, whatever it is, whatever it is, because the time is completely, and they cannot be busy trying to do everything.”
The barrage of sweating incidents in the complexes is motivating the FBI to step and investigate, saying that fake calls cost thousands of dollars, raise resources and risk people.
The agency said in a statement, “The FBI is watching an increase in incidents of wandering across the country, and we take possible cheating threats very seriously as it risks innocent people.”
While punishment for swatting calls is serious, it is often difficult to find a person responsible.
,[I]The T becomes like an interesting procedure for sorting through the T, as depending on the person, depending on the danger person, if they are found and arrested, the prosecutors have to come together in both the state and/or local level and then at the federal level, at the federal level, that is well, what is possible for the allegations.
If the person behind the call knows how to cover his track, however, it can be extremely difficult to find. In some cases, the caller is also not located in the United States.
In February, a teenager from California convicted shooting and bomb threats against schools and other institutions and Was sentenced to four years In four cases of creating interstate threats in the federal jail.
And whether the person has been caught or not, these incidents are leaving a permanent impact on students and teachers who see these messages and believe, even for a few moments, their life is in danger in their school.
“There is a trauma that you have now strengthened the idea that it is an unsafe place, even though nothing is really done. Now you believe that now there is a possibility that one of these attacks may be another. There may be a real shooting. So maybe, so you have reduced the feeling of trust and security of the people,” said Klinger.
A “equally dangerous” result of these calls is the threat of people falling in the boy who cried Wolf ideas, where there are many of them that one of these will be an active shooter at a time “and people would not believe it, he said.
