The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center has released Mass Attacks in Public Spaces – 2019, a report which examines 34 mass attack incidents across the U.S. in 2019. Out of these 34 attacks, 26 occurred either at a place of business or in an open public space, resulting...
The US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released the fifth annual report in a series of documented active shooter incidents. This report, Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2019, outlines the 28 active shooter incidents that occurred in the United States in...
The American Psychological Association released “Stress in America 2019,” an annual survey detailing the prevalence and causes of stress across the country. This survey indicates three main issues of concern for the majority of Americans: the upcoming 2020 presidential election, health care, and mass shootings. Of these issues, mass shootings...
The George Washington University Program on Extremism released three new papers on Online Violent Extremism. All deal with the complicated issue of determining and assigning who bears the legal and moral onus of countering online terrorism. “Leveraging CDA 230 to Counter Online Extremism” by Annemarie Bridy argues “that the scope...
The Gun Violence Archive, an online database started in 2013, compiles information on gun violence and provides up-to-date statistics on all gun-related incidents in the United States (omitting suicide). A real-time, quick-access chart on the homepage includes links to total number of incidents (33,510 as of August 7, 2019), number...
