Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security

Robin Cogan, the former president of the National Association of School Nurses and the guest on episode 2 of my podcast back in June 2024 ( Can School Nurses Prevent the Next School Shooting? ) has been diagnosed with a sudden onset terminal illness while traveling out of state. Her family needs help paying for medical flight back to New Jersey. While I never met Robin in person, from my virtual i...

Guest : Dana Grueser, mother . As someone who nearly lost my son to online radicalization by 764 & NVE, I spotlight dangers caused by addictive, unrestrained tech & help others prioritize real world experiences. Guest : Allizandra Herberhold , LMSW, works with radicalized, at-risk, and violent teens and young adults to prevent mass shootings and counter violent extremism. * Ep 69. Going viral in e...

Guest: Danny Otten , PhD candidate in computer science and VP of the Graduate Student Association at William & Mary in Virginia Background: * William & Mary students vote to end AI surveillance contract * AI system failed to identify a school shooting in progress at Antioch High * AI classified Doritos chips as a gun and then police pointed real guns at students * FTC take action on the false mark...

Guest : Dr. Daniel Hamlin is the Oklahoma Secretary of Education, a Presidential Professor in education policy, and Faculty Director of the Oklahoma Center for Education Policy (OCEP) Paper : Stopping Violence Before It Starts: An Analysis of How Potential School Gun Attacks Are Exposed Plain language summary : Four ways school shootings are averted Abstract : Gun violence in U.S. schools continue...

Background: Terrorists attack 2 US schools on the same day Guest: Dr. Bruce Hoffman , Georgetown University, author of Inside Terrorism Professor Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for nearly five decades. He is a tenured professor in Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where from 2010 to 2017 he was the Director of both the Center for Security S...

Guests: Eric A. Baldwin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Donohue Lab at Stanford University and Takuma Iwasaki is a doctoral candidate at Stanford Law School and a graduate researcher at Stanford Data Science. Paper: School shootings and the strategic contributions of gun policy PACs in US House elections Abstract: The American public consistently supports stricter gun laws. We show that t...

Last week, Colin Gray was found guilty on 27 felony charges including four counts of second-degree murder and cruelty to children. Gray purchased an AR-15 rifle for his 14-year-old son who had extensive contact with child services and multiple police agencies, had a shrine to the Parkland shooter in his bedroom, and was involved in social media groups that promote mass violence. While parents have...

The goal of Fighting Matters Podcast is to combat extremism in martial arts like BJJ & MMA featuring hosts Steve Kwan & Jesse Walker ( both Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belts ). Topics discussed on this episode ( each link is an article I’ve written ): * The Tumbler Ridge shooting and the pattern behind it * How the True Crime Community (TCC) radicalizes teens online * Roblox as a grooming and recrui...

Guest : Allizandra Herberhold , LMSW, works with radicalized, at-risk, and violent teens and young adults to prevent mass shootings and counter violent extremism. Website : Parents4Peace . We center our work on those most affected by extremism—families and targeted communities—while equipping frontline professionals to intervene early and stop hate before it escalates. We address hate at its sourc...

Risk: exposure of someone or something valued to danger, harm, or loss. New Paper : Critical thinking: exploring the expansion of critical infrastructure Guest: Dr. Russell Lundberg , Sam Houston State University Abstract : The concept of critical infrastructure (CI) has evolved significantly across developed nations since the early 2000s, with the United States providing a particularly illustrati...

July 4, 1776 - The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of...

Article : Afterschool Child Firearm Assaults: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis Guests : Emma L. Gause, MS, MA & Jonathan Jay, DrPH, JD Abstract : Objective: Firearms are the leading cause of death among children in the United States with resources primarily dedicated to the prevention of school shootings. However, child firearm assault risk may surge during afterschool hours when children leave schoo...

The Tragic Repetition of School Shootings (aired 12/17/2025) by A Public Affair on WORT in Madison, WI. This week marks the 1-year anniversary of the shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison . Meanwhile the search for the Brown University shooter is ongoing. To talk about these events and the ongoing crisis of school shootings across the US, host Ali Muldrow is joined by Dr. David...

Paper : Are School Shootings a Unique Form of Violence? A Comparison of the Individual and Contextual Correlates of Nonfatal School Shootings and Youth Gun Violence Abstract : School shootings have been traditionally viewed as a unique form of violence in which disgruntled suburban White boys indiscriminately target their peers and cause mass injury; however, a series of recent studies that employ...

Guest: Retired police chief Patrick Flannelly served 27 years with Lafayette Police Department which borders Purdue University in Indiana. He served 10 years as chief of the department and now hosts of the Coptimizer Podcast . Brown University has 235 buildings (most built between 1770-1926) on its 143-acre urban campus in downtown Providence, RI. The school has 20,000 students in a community of 2...

New Paper : Run, Hide, or Freeze: Social and Emotional Influence on Behavior in an Immersive School Shooting Simulation Abstract : As school shootings rise in frequency across the United States, understanding how individuals respond during such crises is critical for developing effective safety protocols. This study used an immersive, computer-based simulation to investigate how social influence a...

Article (pre-submission/pre-publication) : Early Medical Response in Active-Shooter Incidents. A Systematic Review of After-Action Reports Guests: * Dr. Dominique Wong is an attending physician the Cabell Huntington Hospital Emergency Department and chair of the hospital’s Medical Readiness Committee. She also serves as a tactical physician and medical director for police SWAT and Tactical EMS tea...

Interview with the directors of HBO’s new documentary Thoughts & Prayers . Their film premiers this Tuesday night at the DOC NYC film festival and is available streaming the same night. ( note: I set up this interview, HBO didn’t ask me to promote this film or provide any financial incentive ). This 90-minute documentary traces the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry in the United Stat...

Police to students: “The way you guys were eating chips, it picked it up as a gun. AI’s not the best. Can’t trust stuff like this at a school man. Good thing you guys didn’t run [laughs]...that would have made a major problem. ” Bodycam footage shows Baltimore County, MD police handcuffing 4 students who were waiting to be picked up after football practice when they got an alert from AI software t...

Host : Dr. Chris Bellavita , senior faculty at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security . Guest : Dr. David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database and author of ‘How Critical is Critical Infrastructure’ (thesis chaired by Dr. Bellavita). Articles mentioned : * Imagining Future Homeland Security Threats: Known and Likely to Unknown and Unlikely * Q...

Guest : Allizandra Herberhold , LMSW, works with radicalized, at-risk, and violent teens and young adults to prevent mass shootings and counter violent extremism. Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Samples of TCC Content : TCC style cartoon that I used ChatGPT to generate: Links discussed in the show: * Allizandra’s Website : Parents4Peace . We center our work on...

Last week, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation. This episode is a short overview of my research on using LLMs like ChatGPT to assess threats of violence. My Dissertation : LLMs Versus Human Experts: Mixed Methods Analysis Measuring Variance in School Shooting Threat Assessments Abstract : This study measures the unwanted variability in expert judgments by testing six frontier large languag...

Guest : Simon C. Osamoh , a former British detective and security director at Mall of America. Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Book : How to Survive a Mass Shooting: Practical Tools to Prevent Gun Violence and Protect Yourself When It Happens David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database , Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm...

Guest : Allizandra Herberhold , LMSW, works with radicalized, at-risk, and violent teens and young adults to prevent mass shootings and counter violent extremism. Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Website : Parents4Peace . We center our work on those most affected by extremism—families and targeted communities—while equipping frontline professionals to intervene...

Guests : School principals George Roberts and Andy McGill, both experienced a school shooting on their campus. Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Website: Principal Recovery Network Resource: The NASSP Principal Recovery Network Guide to Recovery (In August 2022, the PRN published the Guide to Recovery, a collection of best practices to assist school leaders in th...