Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security

David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 school shooting database and a man with a deep insight on how school shooters take shape. Riedman joins the show to talk about all of the surprising things he has discovered in this trove of data about an admittedly macabre topic. He will make you question some of the ideas you may have on why and how these school shootings happen. Most importantly, he has...

Guests : * David Russell is an associate professor of sociology at Appalachian State University. His research uses multiple methods to explore topics across the areas of medical sociology, aging and the life course, and stress and mental health. * Jon Gordon is an assistant professor of sociology at Appalachian State University and an ethnographer whose research focuses on violence, gender, and cr...

Host : David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guest : Josh Novick is a licensed professional counselor, trauma specialist, founder of Trust and Grow Consulting, and volunteer for Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence . Resources for parents : * https://www.instagram.com/childlifetherapist/?hl=en * https://www.nmvvrc.org/media/3tmbuhke/parents_guidelines_for_helping_youth_after...

Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guest: Anne Nassauer , Professor of Sociology, Universität Erfurt, Germany. Paper : “The only friend I had was my gun”: A mixed-methods study of gun culture in school shootings Abstract : Firearms are the leading cause of death for minors in the United States and US gun culture is often discussed as a reason behind the prevalence...

Guest: Erin Wright-Kelly DrPH, MA , Director of Research and Evaluation of the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative at the Colorado School of Public Health Host : David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Paper: Trends in Carrying Handguns Among Florida Adolescents: 2002–2022 * OBJECTIVES: This study explored changes in general handgun carrying, in-school carrying, favorable a...

Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guest : Officer Seth Capps, Guardian Program Director , Mineola ISD Police. Slides : Implementation of a School Guardian Program in Texas David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database , Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm , and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast— Back to Scho...

Guest : Dr. Dewey G. Cornell is a forensic clinical psychologist, the director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project, and a faculty associate of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. Host : David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . * Behavioral Threat Assessment and Intervention in Schools: School Administrator March 2023 * National Center for School Safety: Sc...

Guest : Sarabeth Spitzer, MD, MPH, SAFE Co-Founder, General Surgery Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic : SAFE’s mission is to ensure that all healthcare providers are equipped with skills and evidence-based knowledge to advise their patients, communities, and legislators on...

Guest : Maryam Ahranjani , professor of law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas , where she teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law and procedure and constitutional law. Host : David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database Paper : Unarresting School Safety , Nevada Law Journal American public schools continue to utilize and expand hars...

Guest : Dr. Megan Raichelson , Post-Doctoral Fellow in Clinical Psychology Host : David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database Dissertation : Exploring Leakage as a Warning Behavior in K-12 School Shooting Events David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database , Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm , and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly...

Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guests : Muzeeb Shaik is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University–Bloomington. John Costello is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. Mike Palazzolo is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Graduate School of Managemen...

Host : David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database Guest : Dr. Beth J Sanborn , President of the Pennsylvania School Resource Officers Association Book : Piecing It Together: School Resource Officers as Allies in Education Prior Episode : Ep 30. Dr. Beth Sanborn on the traits of an effective school police officer David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database ,...

Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guest : Robert Chappell is the executive editor of 365 Media Foundation in Madison, WI. Wisconsin School Shootings: * Near Miss: Student had 'dirty bomb' at Mount Horeb Middle during school shooting * School shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, WI * What happened during the school shooting at Mount Horeb Middle...

Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guest : Dr. Margaret Heldring , is the founder and CEO of Grandmothers for Gun Responsibility , a retired clinical psychologist, clinical faculty in the UW Dept of Family Medicine, as health care legislative assistant to former U.S. Senators Bill Bradley and Paul Wellstone, as a senior policy advisor on Bill Bradley’s presidentia...

Guest : Dr. Jillian Peterson , forensic psychologist, professor at Hamline University, and executive director of The Violence Prevention Project Research Center . Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Access the full document here Other episodes we mentioned: * Ep. 5: Forensic psychologist analyzes a school shooter’s manifesto and the attack at CVPA High was a ‘death...

Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guest : Officer Seth Capps, Guardian Program Director , Mineola ISD Police. 10 step framework for implementing an armed guardian program: * Determining the number of guardians required to meet Texas law state mandate * Selecting the criterium and type of staff member necessary * Establishing training requirements * Determining qu...

Here are a few more clips from my first 40 episodes: * Ep. 19: Dr. Brian Williams on preventing gun violence in homes, schools, and communities * Ep 41. ER doctor Cedric Dark explains how to cure the gun epidemic * Episode 7: Conversation with Dr. Sonali Rajan on Using Data to Reduce Gun Violence at Schools * Ep 10. Revisiting 'School of Errors' with Dr. David Perrodin * Ep 9: "School Safety is a...

My first episode of the Back to School Shootings podcast ( Episode 1: Noise audit for assessing school shooting threats ) was released on May 20, 2024. I recorded it to share the findings from a research paper that had been stuck in the peer-review doom loop. A year later, the show has turned into a place for experts across disciplines to share their findings about reducing gun violence. This epis...

Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guest : Cedric Dark , MD, MPH , is a board-certified emergency physician practicing in a Houston, Texas trauma center. An associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine, he also serves as the Medical Editor-in-Chief of ACEP Now, the Official Voice of Emergency Medicine. * Dr. Dark’s Website * Policies to Prevent Gun Violence i...

Paper : Mental health consequences of exposure to mass and non-mass shootings in a national sample of US adults (Nature) Guests : Dr. Jillian Peterson , forensic psychologist, professor at Hamline University, and executive director of The Violence Prevention Project Research Center and Dr. James Densley , criminal justice department chair at Metropolitan State University and co-founder of The Viol...

Article : Columbine's 'MONSTERS next door' and cultural rituals of school shootings Guest : Georgetown University professor Rev. Dr. Ed Ingebretsen , an expert in monsters, cultural studies, and the author of At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture . Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Each of these four elements plays out in the social discou...

Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guest: Dr. Jens Ludwig , Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, codirector of the Education Lab, and codirector of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s working group on the economics of crime. The Crime Lab was the recipient of a $1 million MacArthur...

Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guest: Jeff Asher is a nationally recognized expert in evaluating criminal justice data. Before launching AH Datalytics , Jeff worked as an analyst for the CIA, as a crime analyst with the New Orleans Police Department, and at FiveThirtyEight. Jeff also publishes weekly articles on Substack . David Riedman is the creator of the K...

Host: David Riedman , creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database . Guest: Anne Nassauer , Professor of Sociology, Universität Erfurt, Germany Paper: The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings Key points: * Prior papers and books on school shootings tend to cite the same 5-10 high profile cases (e.g., Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook,...

I was a guest on the Coptimizer Podcast with retired police chief Patrick Flannelly . We talked about: * Systemic flaws with the incident command system (ICS) during mass shootings like Las Vegas Harvest Festival and Uvalde * School lockdowns versus evacuating * Increased risk from arming teachers and private security * Lost guns and accidental/negligent discharges * Warning signs of violence and...