Florida shooting: School threats spike 'significantly'

For one small US non-profit group, the murder of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School came as no surprise.

"We felt like there was something big potentially coming," said Amy Klinger of the Educators' School Safety Network.

Her organisation tracks media reports on school threats and incidents. It found a 12% increase in threats to schools between the autumn school semesters of 2016 and 2017, and a 59% rise in violent incidents.

But what has alarmed the group is that they have tracked almost 400 cases since the 14 February attack.

The Ohio-based network has seen up to 65 threats to US schools a day, compared with a daily average of 11 before.


Source : bbc