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The NY City Terror Plot Connection to School Security

Posted by on May 8, 2010

There is a direct connection between the New York City Times Square terror bomb plot and the security of your child’s school.  I talked about schools as terror targets in my April 28th post entitled, “Is Your Child’s School a Soft Target for Terrorism?,”  Ironically, that post was published just a few days before the New York City […]

Is Your Child’s School a Soft Target for Terrorism?

Posted by on April 28, 2010

The 1999 Columbine High School attack has been referred to by many as an act of terrorism.  Domestic terrorism, obviously, but still terrorism. Did the act fit the definition of terrorism?  If not the formal definition, it certainly fits the concept. In my first book (Practical School Security), written back in 1998, I identified terrorism as one […]