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Those fake active shooter calls to schools? A similar thing happened before
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CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (NPR) — Just before 3 p.m. on a sunny Friday in September, police in Chillicothe, Ohio, received a message from dispatch: an active shooter had reportedly injured 24… Read More
![In response to a false call about an active shooter, police and emergency workers descended on Robert Anderson Middle School in Anderson, South Carolina, on Oct. 5. Parents rushed to pick up their children, causing a traffic jam in front of the school.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-05t170326z_293881500_mt1usatoday19179998_rtrmadp_3_anderson-county-emergency-workers-sheriff-s-office-city-b8ca07e5234fed324c5f686137311da3aad848dd-e1665173450273-900x422.jpg)
False calls about active school shooters are rising. Behind them is a strange pattern
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — When Emmi Conley first heard in September about a rash of hoax calls reporting active shooters in schools, she dismissed it. Conley, an extremism researcher who… Read More