Fresno law enforcement urges community to report concerning behavior as school threats rise

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno County Sheriff's Office is moving to forestall targeted unit by pushing radical to study concerning behavior.

The Targeted Violence Prevention Task Force is made up of a radical of investigators who look into specified reports.

The bureau launched it past twelvemonth and has investigated 14 reports.

They accidental it’s important to dispersed the connection astir the programme as, little than a period into the schoolhouse year, respective Central Valley schoolhouse districts person already received threats.

"We've seen two threats just successful the past fewer days present astatine Fresno Unified," Amy Idsvoog with the Fresno Unified School District said.

She says it’s a disturbing inclination successful a spot wherever children should consciousness safe.

"A batch of it has to bash with the large events that happened past week successful Georgia," Idsvoog said.

"When thing happens determination other successful the country, there's a play of clip - it's a mentation called ‘contagion theory,’ successful which determination is astir a 13-14 time model erstwhile thing large happens that's publicized, it could motorboat idiosyncratic else's pre-existing plan," Fresno County Sheriff’s Office Captain John Reynolds said.

The Sheriff's Office is pushing to study concerning behaviour earlier a tragedy.

They say, that successful the bulk of wide shootings oregon attacks, different radical saw signs but chose to disregard them.

"We reappraisal these tips, and if there's a definite class oregon threshold met, the algorithm successful our strategy alerts america to a much superior menace versus a little superior threat," Reynolds said.

You can file a study anonymously through the sheriff’s website. Reynolds says filing a study volition not automatically effect successful arrest, though.

"There is simply a stigma attached with, 'I don't privation to crook idiosyncratic successful and ruin their life.' We're not doing that. This is not a Crime Stoppers extremity for a crime. This is concerning behaviour that whitethorn crook retired to beryllium nothing, and we would alternatively look into thing that turns retired to beryllium thing than the alternative," Reynolds said.

He encourages radical to look retired for obsession with violence, harm to animals, fixation connected a idiosyncratic grievance and acquisition of a limb arsenic imaginable signs of convulsive intentions.

He says everyone knows what benignant of behaviour is mean for their loved ones. Residents are encouraged that if they spot a abrupt displacement toward concerning interests, to wage attention.

"You don't privation to beryllium looking successful the rearview reflector of beingness reasoning you had the accusation that could person saved your peers’ lives," Reynolds said.

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