Student Threats of Violence

In this University of Virginia program, Dewey Cornell, professor of education at the University of Virginia, discusses school violence and suggests that the media are coloring the public's perception of school violence. Is violent crime in schools really on the rise? If so, what can be done to keep our schools safe?

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Education

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• school
• shooting
• violence
• social
• science
• psychology
• columbine
• safety

[agapitoflores001]

It is so frightening.

[Karestase]

@joe80dman son of a bitch

[Karestase]

@joe80dman cocksucker

[joe80dman]

@Karestase : Go ahead and call me a "prick" for speaking the truth. The CIA, and DEA are smuggling the drugs into the country, the inner city gangs distribute the drugs, and the cops, lawyers, judges, correctional officers, parole officers, and rehab specialists keep their lucrative jobs. This is all very well documented if you know how to read. Law enforcement is making cash money on both ends, many retiring into million dollar communities. Prohibition never works, at least not for the people.

[Karestase]

@joe80dman prick

[joe80dman]

Why do you believe me to be a "whack job"? Remember Col. Olive North, and the drugs for weapons fiasco in Nicaragua? Look up Barry Seal to find out more interesting facts. Anyone who believes that the government is truly trying to "keep drugs out of America", has been sadly duped.

[braveTOMINATOR]

For the record, the CIA doesn't have any division dedicated to drug enforcement. And before you say "they can't acknowledge the existence of a war on drugs unit" let me say that the CIA has at least published material regarding the existence and activities of the Special Activities Division, the CIA's paramilitary strike force.

But, I realize that such facts will not convince you. Had I known from the beginning that you were a whack job, I wouldn't have bothered posting in the first place.

[joe80dman]

The ones involved in drug smuggling are making money on both sides. The CIA is flying in the cocaine from S. America. The DEA is helping to bring in drugs as well. Do you think these guys are going to ignore the tremendous profits of drugs? Local cops are being busted all the time for dealing drugs. Ever been to a cop party? There's more pot smoking, and cocaine use, at cop's parties imagineable. The Gov wanted an excuse to circumvent the 4th Amendment, and drugs was the perfect alibi.

[braveTOMINATOR]

Think about what I just said. We are spending MORE on the war on drugs than a supposed U.S. interest in opium profits. That would translate into a monetary LOSS. Your assertion just doesn't hold to basic logic.

[joe80dman]

The "War on Drugs" is a massive waste of precious tax dollars. This ideological "war" has been a total failure. There's more drugs on our streets since the establishment of this war than previously. It would be impossible to eradicate drugs from society. Just ask anyone in Big Pharma. Are we to believe the gov's excuse that we're in Afghanistan to "get the Taliban"? I don't think so. All of these resources spent on getting the Taliban is nonsense. Opium production sounds more realistic.