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About the Author:
With the completion of the acquisition of
Morpho Detection, Stephen Esposito
was  asked to  provide stability and focus
to this expanded business development,
sales and marketing team for the Americas,
as Vice President Business Development,
Sales and Marketing, Smiths Detection.
Prior to that, Stephen served as VP and GM
for the Americas region, Interim President,
Smiths Detection Inc., and was responsi-
ble for driving revenues and profitability
while leading the business in support of
government and commercial customers.
Smiths Detection develops gov-
ernment regulated advanced
technologies used in threat de-
tection equipment to detect
and identify constantly evolving
chemical, biological, radiologi-
cal, nuclear and explosive (CBR-
NE) materials, contraband and
dangerous or illegal materials.
TIME, http://time.com/5168272/how-ma-
ny-school-shootings/
90% of nation’s public high schools report-
ed a violent incident in the 2015-2016
school year (Figure 6.2) https://nces.ed.gov/
programs/crimeindicators/ind_06.asp
Percentage of schools with security person-
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nel on campus at least once a week https://nces.
ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_233.70.
asp
Percentage of students threatened/injured with a
weapon on school property https://nces.ed.gov/
programs/crimeindicators/ind_04.asp
Carrying weapons on school property https://nces.
ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/ind_14.asp
Schools using metal detectors (random or daily)
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/
dt17_233.60.asp
Percentage of schools doing random checks with
metal detectors https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/dis-
play.asp?id=334
Students who avoided class/activities/area of the
school for fear of an attack (Figure 18.1) https://
nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/ind_18.as-
p#fig_18_1
Students who carry a weapon in schools with met-
al detector vs those without https://www.cdc.gov/
mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00022011.htm
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Stephen Esposito, Smiths Detection