Once again the police, judicial and media establishments have demonstrated they're far more concerned about vengeance after the shooting at a Michigan school than they are about understanding why it happened and how to prevent future shootings; not that I'm trying to excuse the shooter! They were quick to declare they would try him as an adult, as if the threat of this is going to make shootings like this less likely, and shortly after that they filed charges against his parents, and possibly the artist who helped them hide. But there was little or no discussion of the leading causes of this violence and how to prevent it, especially the most effective research on long term causes of violence.
Even this soon after the shooting, without full investigation, it's clear that there were numerous chances, both short term and long term to have prevented it. But as usual, possible short term solutions get far more attention, even though the long terms solutions are much more likely to prevent much more violence, although if you prevent a potential solution with long term solutions there's unlikely to be a clear record showing how much violence they prevented. There have been numerous reports about his Social Media posts before the shooting showing that he might be dangerous and this is the grounds for a a recent report, School district faces two $100 million lawsuits after Michigan shootings 12/09/2021 Whether this includes the parents or shooter as defendants or not I don't know, but if they're trying to get payment, this doesn't matter, since there's little or no chance that any of them will ever have enough money to pay their own legal and living expenses, let alone a large civil suit payment. Nevertheless, it's not uncommon for civil suits to try to get as much money as they can from people that will never be able to pay, which is all the more reason why we should have much more education about the leading causes of violence and how to prevent it instead, since this would save an enormous amount of lives and much more money, presumably in the billions of dollars.
This lawsuit might result in a large settlement for the family, although it will be paid for by taxpayers, not those responsible for the shooting, and the threat of litigation like this might encourage some school districts to make some small changes, but without much better education about the leading research showing how to prevent violence, it's unlikely to lead to more effective changes that have been proven to work in many other parts of the world. Most people don't realize it but the research to reduce violence has been available for decades and is constantly improving; although the media refuses to report on it, and politicians make policy decisions based on the financial interests and ideologies of their campaign donors, not good research. It has been reported repeatedly that there were plenty of signs that Ethan might go on a shooting spree, including his social media posts, and there was a meeting about possible intervention hours before the shooting, but nothing was done. Similar events have happened at other school shootings, but there's little discussion about how many troubled kids also showed warning signs that didn't go on shooting sprees, which is almost certainly why nothing was done. Furthermore, there was even less discussion in mainstream media about long term solutions to all forms of violence, not just school shootings, which would almost certainly have prevented it long before he became on the verge of shooting his classmates.
Furthermore there's virtually no discussion about the fact that no other wealthy country has nearly as high a murder rate as the United States according to a List of countries by intentional homicide rate which shows that all the countries with higher murder rates are poorer and have more dysfunctional governments ignoring the root causes of crime, and most of them are countries that our government has intervened in and is almost certainly responsible for their high crime rates. However, among wealthy countries, virtually all of them have less than half of our murder rates, most of them are less than a third and many less than twenty percent. There's plenty of research showing why, and there's little doubt that a major reason for this is they address many of the worst social problems contributing to violence much better than we do, and a large reason for our high murder rates are a large number of abandoned inner cities that have few educational or economic opportunities.
The town the Crumbly's lived in actually has a very low rate of violence, and this one shooting is going to send the murder rate skyrocketing from zero to 115, nevertheless there's plenty of evidence showing how this could have been prevented and showing programs the school or other social services could have done to educate the parents about helping him before he became a mass shooter. The most obvious, of course is that giving a fifteen year old, and potential victim of bullying, a gun is truly outrageous, and a major reason why the parents are being charged. There has been an enormous amount of research showing how to address many of the leading causes of violence for decades, in libraries where few people read them, but they get virtually no attention from mainstream media, from good academics including Barbara Coloroso, James Garbarino and many more.
The best academics hardly get any media coverage, although one exception, which I've cited several times before, was this article he submitted to CNN nine years ago shortly after the Newtown shooting How a boy becomes a killer 12/19/2012; but even then it got little or no air time on Cable News and I never would have found it if I hadn't looked specifically for it. This is relatively brief, of course, but his books cite many other programs often proving to save far more money than they cost and save lives, reducing crime and other social problems as well. Professor Garbarino has written about numerous programs which most people have never heard of that prevent an enormous amount of violence, including some that almost certainly would have worked on Ethan Crumbly.
One of these programs which I wrote about in Burying Solutions to Prevent Gilroy, Dayton and El Paso Shootings, which includes an excerpt from his book is a home visitor program that offers at risk parents help from someone trained in how to advise on raising children without abusing them or driving parents away from teachers or others trying to help the. It's unclear if Ethan's parents would have qualified for this programs, but he also wrote about programs where they teach teachers to recognize warning signs in children, which apparently were present with Ethan, and offer non-punitive advise to parents on how to resolve the situation, which may be similar to the home visitor program. In the most extreme cases these non-punitive measures might not be quite enough, and if they waited until the last minute and intervened right before the shooting and took his gun away, this might have been the case.
However, there's good reason to believe there were warning signs long before that, possibly when non-punitive advice might have been much more effective. According to Ethan Crumbley’s neighbor warned authorities about parents’ neglect: report 12/06/2021, which says
Kayla LeMieux, who lives near Ethan and his parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, said she alerted child-abuse authorities that the pair would leave their son — then 8 or 9 years old — home alone while they went out bar-hopping, according to a report in the Detroit Free Press.
“When they were gone, he would come knock on our door,” LeMieux, 28, told the outlet. “They didn’t leave him with a phone.”
LeMieux said she notified Child Protective Services but doesn’t know if they took action — noting that the alleged neglect continued. .... A spokesman for the child-care agency told the Free Press that they could not confirm LeMieux’s claims because all abuse allegations reported to the entity are kept confidential.
This indicates that Child Protective Services were in a position to intervene, if necessary long before the shooting happened. Whether it's teachers from school or social workers from CPS there's no doubt that someone could have provided advice or other forms of intervention and they would be much less likely to have required extreme measures if they caught the problem years before it escalated. This is just one of many programs that help reduce violence depending on the situation, which most people have never heard of. In another previous article, Ten Ways To Reduce Violence, Backed Up By Research, I also cited this as well as several other studies, including another one mentioned by James Garbarino called "Zagar's Study" which shows that for every dollar spent on prevention programs they typically saved at least six more dollars on future social problems, which would have included police or court costs, and, perhaps more important, these programs also prevent an enormous amount of violence.
Previously after the Parkland shooting in Florida I also mentioned these programs in Prevention of violence has to address all causes, not just Guns! and cited reports that also showed that there were opportunities to intervene with Nicholas Cruz and other news reports showed that there were many opportunities to intervene with Dylann Roof, and of course, if you go through enough mass shooters or violence criminals, in most cases there were almost always missed opportunities to prevent shootings or other violence, and there has been research showing how to do it all along, but it's not reported in the media or used to make policy decisions!
In another speech given by James Garbarino: "Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us" (aprox. 31-33 min.) he describes another experiment teaching how to prevent violence when he says, "There’s a psychologist in Chicago, Robert Zegart Xavier, that developed the most effective assessment algorithm for predicting future violent behavior or as most predictive instruments are lucky if they’re 70% accurate his is 90 something percent accurate we’ve actually used it in some of these cases to document this person is now safe; but there was an experimental program done in Chicago where they identified the thousands of kids most at risk of committing murder based on this algorithm and they gave them three programmatic elements, anger management mentoring and the jobs program and they cut the number of murders in half." There are many more experiments like this showing many solutions to address many different contributing factors to violence and how to prevent it, but most people aren't aware of them, since the media provides minimal coverage of it and politicians refuse to base policy decisions on good research, including how child abuse leads to escalating violence and also contributes to bullying, which is almost certainly a factor in many school shootings like Columbine, Oxford or Parkland.
There have been numerous reports that Ethan Crumbly was bullied including, Bullied suspect Ethan Crumbley, 15, allegedly used dad’s pistol in school shooting 12/01/2021, as well as several denials, which isn't uncommon, as I'll get to below. This article says:
His father purchased the 9mm Sig Sauer used in the shooting just four days earlier on Black Friday, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. ...... Investigators said they are still trying to determine a motive for the deadly shooting because the suspect isn’t speaking to them. However, some classmates have said Crumbley was bullied, according to the Detroit Free Press.
There has been some speculation that his parents specifically bought him this gun for self-defense, although I haven't confirmed this through any news articles or statements from officials directly involved in the investigation, but there's no doubt that his parents made the gun available to him, and were strong advocates for gun rights. His mother clearly was a Trump supporter as indicated in a bizarre letter to Mr. Trump from Jennifer Crumbley and when she was informed that he was searching online at school for ammo instead of replying to the school or restricting his access to the gun she texted him, "LOL I'm not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught," and it wasn't until after reports of the shooting, that she texted him, "Ethan don't do it," when, of course, it was too late. There's little doubt that there were family problems long before the shooting, which could have been helped by outside counseling, assuming the parents were receptive, which they may not have been. This is also confirmed by Ethan's older half brother, Eli, who moved back to Florida to live with his real mother, who was his father's first wife.
Eli said he was unaware of any bullying and a police investigator seems to confirm this according to Parent of Michigan shooter met with schools leaders due to concerning behavior — hours before deadly shooting 12/02/2021 which says, “The coordinator of the anti-bullying programs had no information that he had been bullied by anyone," Bouchard said. “I will say again, there is nothing that he could have faced that would warrant senseless, absolutely brutal violence on other kids." However, this isn't a guarantee, since authorities might not have been aware of the reports of his bullying; as anyone who remembers Junior High School knows, most kids are reluctant to report this to authorities. However, since there were rumors about it in the paper, it appears to be a possibility, and few people asked for the source of these rumors, who may prefer to remain anonymous, due to peer pressure.
In this case, it clearly appears that his family upbringing was almost certainly a major contributing factor, but it's highly unlikely that there was no bullying or other motive for shooting up the school. Part of the reason why bullying is often denied as a contributing cause, especially with school shootings, is that it could easily be interpreted as blaming the victim; and to be honest, in most cases I have no idea whether the people shot by numerous school shootings are the actual bullies or not, and even if they are, shaming them isn't the most appropriate response. However, finding out what the leading causes of violence so that it can be prevented in the future requires some degree of disclosure followed up by educational opportunities so the public and politicians, school board members, that make policy should be informed about the best research, and this should include educating the public, especially since it involves improved child rearing tactics.
A large portion of our justice system, especially the police and prisons, are far more concerned with punishing people after the fact than figuring out how to prevent violence before it escalates. There's no doubt that there's no excuse, or justifiable explanation, as it should be defined, for this shooting, but there are contributing cause which we can recognize and prevent in the future. Furthermore, if we had done this decades ago, we almost certainly could have prevented numerous school shootings in recent years, including the ones in Oxford Mich. and Parkland Fla. There may have even been research in the early nineties showing how to prevent Columbine as well. The police officer was right when he said "there is nothing that he could have faced that would warrant senseless, absolutely brutal violence on other kids." However, this doesn't mean that once again, we should ignore effective ways to prevent these shootings and all other forms of violence as well.
It may not be easy to get conclusive evidence proving that specific school shooters were abused or bullied, or often both; however, there's an enormous amount of peer reviewed research from good academics showing that both lead to escalating violence later in life and that programs designed to prevent both bullying and other forms of child abuse, including corporal punishment are far more effective at preventing other forms of violence later in life, than relying solely on punishment as a deterrent. This is especially true when the suspect is suicidal, which many school shooters or mass murderers are, including Crumbly, Cruz Klebold and Harris. This should be easy to understand, yet the political and media establishment rarely ever consider it any more than they report on many of the leading causes for all forms of violence, not just school shootings.
If the media came out and directly said that they want to figure out how to prevent all school shootings without addressing any other forms of violence it would sound incredibly stupid, especially to those that realize there are multiple contributing factors to all forms of violence and when we address all of them then we'll reduce all forms of violence. The media doesn't quite phrase it this way, but they act as if this is what they want to do and it's just as idiotic, if not more, since they're not preventing any forms of violence including mass shootings. For all practical purposes the only thing they argue about is gun control, which most good researchers agree is a reasonable part of the solution, assuming they handled it well; but they don't even do that. An no good researcher would ever say that we should only try to solve one contributing factor while ignoring the vast majority of other factors.
One of the leading factors that I have focused on repeatedly is how early child abuse, often related to the use of corporal punishment contributes to higher rates of violence; in both 2018 and again in 2019 the states that still allow corporal punishment had a record gap with higher murder rates than those not allowing it on average. In 2019 the 19 states still allowing CP in schools had average murder rates of 6.07, while the 31 states not allowing it and the District of Columbia only had an average of 4.22. In 2030 the murder rates surged, possibly related to COVID, by about 30%, although the gap based on CP stayed about the same, or slightly less than 2019. This is all the more reason why we should learn more about all contributing causes of violence. Murder rates have been dropping steadily for thirty years, despite the fact that they haven't taught the majority of the public about the leading causes of violence. I have no doubt that part of the reason for this is because states have been banning corporal punishment more in the same time period, and parents have used it much less at home, but there are many other factors, including abandoned inner cities.
If you just look at the high murder rates in many abandoned inner cities, usually large cities, it's clear that they're what's driving our high crime rates, often with murder rates at least two or three times the national average and sometimes as much as six to ten times higher. There's also a lot of research showing a major contributing factor for this is our economic system. There are studies showing that high rates of poverty, income inequality, lack of educational or economic opportunities, lack of child care, and several other contributing factors related to our rigged economic system all contribute to higher rates of violence; and there should be little or no doubt that this is a major reason why we have higher rates of violence than any other industrialized wealthy nation. We also have research showing that in many cases solving many of these problems not only helps reduce crime of all kinds, including violent crime, but it saves money as well, yet the media refuses to report on this research.
According to List of countries by intentional homicide rate the United States is the 123rd lowest out of 195 for murder rates, and, with the possible exception of Greenland, none of these countries are as wealthy or well developed as the United States, and most of them have had there governments manipulated, overthrown, or been invaded by the United States, which is almost guaranteed to be part of the reason why they're so violent. Aviva Chomsky explains how intervention from the United States is a major contributing cause of violence and refugees in "Central America's Forgotten History," and there are plenty of other books showing that intervention for many other countries more violent than the United States were also overthrown or invaded by the United States, which may have had similar effects on local violence even after the USA stops intervening, assuming they actually do stop intervening, although many of them don't explain the connection to crime as well as Aviva Chomsky. When it comes to other wealthy industrialized countries they're virtually all among the eighty least violent countries in the world with murder rates more than 60% lower than the United States, below 2 per 100,000 and many of them are more than 80% lower than ours, below 1 per 100,000. And this was before last years surge in murder rates, supposedly related to the pandemic, which caused our murder rates to rise by about 30% to approximately 6.6 per 100,000; and since the United States was hit far worse by the pandemic than most countries, including the wealthy ones with lower rates of violence, it's likely that the gap grew even more, although I don't have up to date data for most countries.
Some good researchers, including Sherry Hamby, claim that all violence is interrelated; and there's an enormous amount of evidence to support this claim. It is almost certainly also true that most, if not all, social problems are interconnected, including many factors that contribute to violence later in life, like child abuse, poverty, income inequality, lack of education, as well as homelessness and drug abuse. In a previous article, Machiavellian Ideology Ignores Real Science I pointed out research about how Finland virtually solved their homeless problem by housing them, and saved far more than they spent on other social problems, and if we replicated their policies there's no doubt we could save billions of dollars and solve most of this problem at the same time; and Portugal had similar results by treating drug addiction instead of criminalizing it. They didn't provide specific studies showing how much money they could save, but there's no doubt they saved an enormous number of lives and far more money than it costed to treat addicts.
There's also evidence to show that providing child care for those that need it also greatly reduces violence; if you look at the chart below and cross check it with countries based on their murder rates, it's clear that all these countries that provide much more funding for child care also have much lower murder rates. For a more comprehensive comparison check Public spending on childcare and early education 2017 which includes more countries; comparing some of them shows a few exceptions but on average, those that spend more on child care have less violence, and many other social problems.
This is also confirmed by several studies as reported in The biggest benefit of pre-K might not be education 07/30/2014 which says:
One of the most common arguments in favor of universal pre-K is the argument that it will actually save money: $7 for every $1 invested, according to President Obama's proposal for expanding pre-K access. Some studies have found an even higher return — as high as $16 to $1 — on investment from sending 4-year-olds to school.
This isn't because of the educational benefits of pre-K. Some studies have found that gains in test scores gradually fade out as children continue through public school.
Instead, the cost-savings reflect an unexpected side-benefit of early education: children who participated in pre-K in some studies were less likely to commit crimes, or to be arrested, later in life.
That's why police chiefs are one of the most unlikely backers of proposals for universal pre-kindergarten. Still, most of the studies that show pre-K reduces crime are also studies that pre-K skeptics criticize the most, saying those programs are hard to replicate at a state or national level.
Some studies have found children who went to pre-K were less likely to be arrested later in life.
The statistics on crimes committed by children who attended pre-K as four-year-olds come from three long-term studies of children living in poverty: the Perry Preschool project in Michigan, the Abcedarian Project in North Carolina and Chicago Longitudinal Study.
The Perry Preschool project, which sent 65 poor children living in poverty in Ypsilanti, Michigna, to pre-K between 1962 and 1967, found that children who attended pre-K were much less likely to be arrested for any type of crime by age 40
These are just a handful of the studies showing that social spending to solve problems before they escalate are far more effective at reducing violence and saving money at the same time; yet these studies hardly get any media coverage at all. In most cases there are effective solutions shown by research, but they don't always have the research to show that they also save money at the same time; but there are enough good studies to show a general pattern of behavior that indicates that when programs to help children are done well they save far more than they cost and this will almost certainly be proven with enough research.
This means that, contrary to what many politicians who claim to be fiscal conservatives, not only can we afford it but we can't afford not to increase funding for these programs, if we want to solve social problems and reduce the deficit at the same time. Amazingly, many of the same politicians claiming they're fiscal conservatives and want to cut funding for these programs, don't hesitate to spend enormous amounts of money on police, courts and prisons even though they haven't been proven to work at all! Clearly the real fiscal conservatives are the ones acknowledging the most effective research and demanding funds for the programs that are the most effective, not the most wasteful!
This is just one of many major contributing factors leading to escalating violence later in life, including about half a dozen of the most important contributing factors like abandoned inner cities and child rearing tactics. There are many good advisers on child rearing tactics including Barbara Coloroso author of "Kids Are Worth It!" and "The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander," which may be even more important than Professor Garbarino's research, since it provides more advice on alternative child rearing tactics, although not as much research on how abuse leads to escalating violence. Another good source is Dr. Stacey Patton author of "Spare the Kids" who also advises on alternatives and the research showing how child abuse leads to escalating violence, including tracing the history of why African Americans may be more supportive of corporal punishment, showing that this was actually taught to them by slave owners over a hundred and fifty years ago, and that when African Americans reject advice on child rearing they may be partly correct, but it should be the advice from former slave owners, not modern child rearing researchers they should reject.
Unfortunately, in the absence of good high profile research in the media or political establishment, there are still a lot of so-called child rearing experts like James Dobson, John Rosemond, and Michael Pearl who sometimes gets more media attention than more qualified academics recommending strict disciplinary methods that include the use of corporal punishment, which often escalates to abuse. Amazingly a few years ago the Dugger family featured Michael Pearl on their show at a time that the Turpin parents were being exposed for some of the worst child abuse of their kids using the same methods. At about the same time several higher profile pundits, including Anderson Cooper also gave Michael Pearl a fair amount of media coverage, although they seemed critical of him. But Anderson Cooper was helping increase the profile of the Pearl's without giving media coverage to the best academics showing how serious the abuse was and providing alternatives. Instead, Anderson Cooper, and perhaps a couple celebrity child advocates without aany academic background expressed shock at these tactics, which might attract ratings, but not explaining how to prevent this abuse. That research remained in the academic world ignored by mainstream media.
Another contributing factor which the media doesn't cover is violence in the media or violent video games, and how they desensitize kids and make them more likely to commit violence later in life. It's really not surprising that they refuse to cover this, since they profit off of it; which is all the more reason why over 95% of the media shouldn't be controlled by six for profit corporations without any accountability or duty to serve the publics interests. The mainstream media also refuses to cover researchers that expose their fraud or how they contribute to social problems, which includes James Garbarino, who has been critical of violence in the media, although that's not what he focuses on the most. They also refuse to cover researchers like Susan Linn and Juliet Schor who expose how advertising to kids has a negative impact on children and is part of an indoctrination process, although this isn't the most important factor when it comes to increased violence.
But the biggest problem almost certainly isn't violence in the media; but what may be more important is a total lack of educational content about the leading causes of violence and how to prevent it. This is especially important because the media and political establishment are partly responsible for some important factors, including creating income inequality, increasing poverty, outsourcing jobs, educational reform that privatizes schools and puts for profit Charter Schools ahead of the best interests of children and numerous other tactics to rig the political establishment and economy for the wealthy!
Fraudulent speech to rig the economy or ensure that only political candidates, supported by the oligarchs, helping to rig the economy, even when it leads to increased violence, get name recognition, is protected speech in commercial media getting obsession coverage to indoctrinate the public. But speech that teaches how to reduce violence is relegated to the academic world or libraries, where only a fraction of the public reads it. This gives a massive propaganda advantage to oligarchs that already have far more money than they can ever spend, while there's little or no money for social programs that will save far more than they cost.
As long as we allow a small fraction of wealthy people control the educational material for the rest of us, we'll never solve many of our most important social problems; instead we'll continue allowing them to fig the economy while our society deteriorates!
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