o donnell: the secret service is best known for its mission to protect the president, and now it s using that knowledge to protect children, today releasing the most comprehensive study on school shootings since columbine. here s jeff pegues. i just ran as fast as i could. reporter: the exhaustive study examined 41 school attacks across america, and in every single one, the assailant exhibited concerning behaviors and at least one social stressor like bullying. that really led to the formation of a grievance. reporter: dr. lina alathari is the chief of the secret service threat assessment center. they can hold a grudge for a long time before they lash out? i think it s just they get to the point where they can t take it anymore. reporter: the report said many of the troubled students ho committed acts could have been identified before they acted out. the secret service uses a similar threat assessment to protect the president and other
where both faculty, staff as well as students were woundsed and murdered, the fbi put out a study which looked at the preattack behavior of suspects in shootings in 2013, some of the red flags the fbi encourages us to look for is changes in behavior. is this employee now who perhaps in the past took great pride in his or her work, now not getting along with other people, being sloppy, increased alcohol abuse, drug abuse, domestic violence, other acts of workplace violence, bullying. failure to get along with other people. these infatuation with prior attacks, an overinterest in prior workplace and school attacks are all red flags. and things that should be reported. because the other problem that
what s more disconcerting is osha says that s a severely underreported figure, that not some, not a few, but many other cases of workplace violence go unreported each and every year. prespren presprengs vengs is the only solution to this national ongoing tragedy. we don t want people to be scare of their co-workers but what does the fbi think they can look out for? the fbi put out very careful studies that i believe can be used in the prevention of workplace violence. in 2018 after the horrific workplace and school attacks at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida, and santa fe high school in texas,
a watershed event in american criminality. you know i was actually in high school in the u.s. when the columbine shooting took place and i remember how how shocking that event was what effect do you think it s had perhaps on that generation of students and also on the country as a whole. i think it is i think it s had a huge effect on the younger generation and i think one of the markers for that is what happened following the parklane attacks last year where there was really an upsurge of of young americans very interested in changing the access the very easy access to hard questions the united states which still is a huge problem but this younger generation really grew up with columbine as an event in their recent history if not prior to when they were born and in a sense it normalized that school attacks could happen any time anywhere although the reality is that school attacks are still very very infrequent in the united
event in their recent history if not prior to when they were born and in a sense it normalized that school attacks could happen any time anywhere although the reality is that school attacks are still very very infrequent in the united states despite the press coverage of such attacks nevertheless of course these are all horrible events and i think the younger generation as demographics in the united states shift toward a younger population we re going to see quite a substantial changes in various ways to keep people safer in the united states. now you mentioned of course unfortunately since columbine there have been dozens more mass school shootings since that time in one thousand nine hundred nine and as you said many of these perpetrators actually did i do lies the shooters that were involved in that shooting in columbine now how did these two students essentially become cult figures for other gunman now. that s an excellent question that