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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by zepto on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:43PM (#23662860)
Do you have a source for the this?

Reporting of school shootings is notoriously unreliable:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-sch...

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by zaroth on Saturday June 27, 2020 @06:27PM (#23665172)
I agree, there's no standard definition. I grabbed the 8 / 43 number for 2019 here [1]. I see they have similar numebers as what I found for 2018 as well [2].

The 2018 numbers I was referencing was from this 10 year overview [3].

[1] - https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shooting...

[2] - https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shooting...

[3] - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/07/us/ten-years-of-scho...

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