CBS News Asks The $3 Billion Question: Does School Security Actually Work?

In Mark Strassmann’s CBS Evening News report, Inside the $3 Billion School Security Industry as Deadly Shootings Continue, Daniel Semenza weighed in on the debate surrounding the booming school security market.

An Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers-Camden and Rutgers School of Public Health, as well as the Director of Interpersonal Violence Research at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center, Semenza raised critical concerns about the effectiveness of costly security measures. He emphasized the urgent need for evidence-based solutions to address the persistent threat of gun violence in schools.

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