ASSESSMENTS
Mass Attacks and the Media: Dissuading Killers by Starving Them of Coverage
Aug 5, 2019 | 20:46 GMT
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Highlights
- Mass attackers who do not expect to survive their attacks are content with the notion that their posthumous identities will live on.
- We will continue to prioritize analyzing how these attacks unfold and how the attackers prepare for them in the interest of public safety; occasionally, shooter's identities will be relevant to that analysis, but typically, they will not.
- Undermining one common key incentive of the would-be mass murderer — the desire for notoriety — could save lives.
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