Incidents and Threats
•Bomb incidents: any event in which an
actual bomb or bomb look-alike is involved
• Bomb threats: any event in which a bomb
threat is communicated that may or may not
involve an actual bomb or bomb look-alike
Causes
• Planned orimpulsive?
• A grievance?
• Known to others?
• Is there a profile?
• School climate?
• Opportunity?
8.
Questions to ask
•About the school or schools
• About the threats
• Locations and times
9.
Prevention: Partner withschools
• Bomb threat response plan
• School security
• Phone system
• School climate
• Troubled children
• After school
Editor's Notes
#3 Maryland school district reported 150 bomb threats and 55 associated arrests. The South Carolina Department of Education in its 1999-2000 school incident crime report lists “disturbing schools,” which includes bomb threats, hoaxes, false fire alarms etc., among its 10 top crimes, second only to simple assaults.
#5 90 percent of bomb threats in schools may turn out to be pranks.
Many school districts report losses in excess of $250,000 because of school closings and costs of bomb search squads.
School districts are increasingly requiring schools to make up days lost due to bomb threats.
70% people believe school shooting could happen to them.
#6 Specificity (see handout for grid)
place and time indicated in the threat;
description of the bomb to be used;
specific targets mentioned or indicated;
reason given or implied in the threat.
#7 Technical Information easily available
Telephone and internet
Concealment
