violence. let s go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about about this going from online threats to actual violence? reporter: yeah. well, sources told our colleague josh campbell that the fbi s investigating an unprecedented number of threats against its personnel including some of its agents. and you can really see that playing out on line since right after the news of that search of mar-a-lago broke on monday. i want to show you some of the kind of messages that have been posted. you mentioned there s one called kill awed feds, another lock and load, another person writes, i m going to say it, garland needs to be assassina
example? so it s really important to have a solid plan and also to involve training. i think one thing that s a misconception that goes around schools these days is that the drills themselves are the training, and drills are an opportunity to practice a skill set, but it s important to teach them what the skill set is. so as amondaya said, we teach a protocol that has specific steps, all of our students are trained at the same time as faculty and staff. and then when we come and do the drills with them, we get an opportunity for them to practice those steps and for us to give them feedback about what they re doing well and the things they may need to work on. amanda, you re talking about schools all across the country. you have all different kinds of schools, whether they be, you know, public schools, private schools, the approaches to these kinds of drills are going to vary widely because of a different all different kinds of factors. how are parents going to be knowing if their
university of new york at oswego and amanda knickerson, school psychology proffers for bullying at the university of buffalo. thank you for joining me this evening. this is such an important topic. i want to go to you first, jacqueline. you have a book that says when done right the lockdown drills lead to a number of positive outcomes. can you quickly explain for our audience the difference between a lockdown drill and an active shooter drill? absolutely. and thank you for having us. a lockdown drill is a drill that s practiced for any danger inside of a building. that can include an active shooter or active scoohool shoor but have to. active shooter drills were for one situation and one situation only and that s an active attacker in the building. amanda, critics say that lockdown drills can be traumatized for students. so is your main argument that the benefits outweigh the costs?
prior to doing a drill at baseline and then administering it after doing the drill, we were a bit surprised actually we thought that there might not be any change, but we actually found less anxiety right after the drill and more wellbeing, although we should note that these kids were reporting pretty low anxiety and high wellbeing at both time points. that s really interesting. we only have a few seconds left. jackie, want to ask you quickly, how do you feel about teachers being armed? you know, certainly that s a decision that districts are struggling with. i think the reality is we just simply don t have the data available anecdotally or otherwise to be able to suggest that that would do what it s intended to do which would be to bring an active shooter situation to an end more quickly. all right. thank you both for coming on this evening. it is a fascinating op-ed in the washington post. jacqueline, amanda, thank you for your time. thank you for having us. thank you.
that has been upset in any way and can then see a cowens horse or get the support counselor or get the support they need. jackie, what do you think it says about our current culture, current society, that you both believe that this is so essential for kids all across the country? you know, certainly prevention should absolutely be the goal, and i think we re in agreement on that. we obviously don t want these events to be happening in our schools. but the reality is that they are. i come from a community i grew up in the parkland area, and we had a shooting. unfortunately, we live in a society where it s better to have the tools and not need it than to need it and not have it. and so i think from our perspective, the important thing is how can we do it in a way that is not trauma inducing, that we are empowering students, creating a culture of preparedness, and really giving them tangible resources that they can use even outside of the four walls of the school building. amand