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about Small Town Dix season 12. It drops on April 21st. April 21st, Mark, your calendars.

We will see you there.

And police stations across the country. Officers start their shifts in the briefing room.

It's a place where law enforcement can speak openly and candidly about safety, training,

policy, crime trends, and more. We think it's time to invite you in, so pull up a chair.

Welcome to the briefing room.

Today on the briefing room is part two of our discussion on classroom safety and training

for active shooter situations. Once again, we're joined by two teachers, both in public schools

in Texas. Jennifer and Kenzie, welcome back. Thank you. We appreciate you for having us

on. Most time nobody asks us, so this is nice. Exactly.

So I have a question. Do you feel like this active shooter critical incident training is

really basically a bandaid that we're not addressing the root of the issues, like for

instance, mental health? These school shooters are usually young people have reached a

breaking point for whatever reason. And they feel they have no resources. Perhaps they

don't have any resources to deal with adversity. And now they're taking it out on some group

of people they feel has humiliated them, has wronged them in some way. And I feel like

in all of these trainings, not that you shouldn't have the training you absolutely should, but

the core issue isn't actually being addressed. Yeah, for sure. I mean, again, because I grew

up, I went to high school while all of this was so prevalent, we had kids that everybody

kind of looked at sideways and was like, well, someone's going to shoot up the school.

It's going to be that kid because it almost feels like a cookie cutter of like they're always

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