As demonstrated by Tuesday’s shutdown of Los Angeles schools, threats can cause large, costly disruptions and traumatize students even in cases that might involve hoaxes.
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“We can not allow ourselves to raise levels of fear”, said Bratton, who once ran the Los Angeles Police Department.
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But New York, whose email was identical to LA’s except for the name of the city and number of people participating in the terrorism threat, did not see those aspects as meaningful.
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James Conway said the State of California is “on edge” following the recent shooting in San Bernardino, and LA school officials nevertheless made their decision “based on the content of that message, which had some pretty violent wording in there, talking about nerve gas and automatic weapons, pressure cookers, and things like that”.
A guide posted on the district’s website offered parents general advice on “psychological first aid” following a crisis, with tips such as listening to children who want to talk about the situation and setting an example with calm behavior.
“In New York most of the students were already at school, school had started, whereas in LA it was easier to cancel classes because it was early in the morning”, he told RT.
The email threat sent to members of the Los Angeles school board that prompted a city-wide school closure was lengthy and sometimes rambling, a law enforcement source told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton.
One LAPD officer on the scene said Perez had his cellphone and was wearing headphones as he walked in the intersection.
It was only an hour after the 7:09 a.m. initial bilingual phone message that the website added a rolling red banner across its screen to inform parents and students that school was out for the day.
The threat came less than two weeks after a married couple inspired by Islamic State militants shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.
“I think the circumstances in neighboring San Bernardino, I think what has happened in the nation, I think what happened internationally” influenced the decision, Cortines said.
Officials in both districts made their decisions without knowing that officials on the opposite coast were dealing with a similar threat.
Although Los Angeles schools were closed, officials in NY chose to keep schools open – after dismissing a similar threat as a hoax.
Beck said the move showed great courage.
“I always tell them to be kind”, she said, “and not to get defensive and be angry”.
The threat is still being analyzed, Zipperman said.
District Superintendent Ramon Cortines says the threat was against students, not just a single campus.
Officials in California have defended the closure, and so did some parents.
School district spokeswoman Ellen Morgan announced the closure Tuesday but released no further details ahead of a press conference at district headquarters.
The email indicated that the writer was a high school student who claimed to be “a devout Muslim, and was once against violence, but I have teamed up with a local jihadist cell as it is the only way I’ll be able to accomplish my massacre in the correct way”.
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Los Angeles’ abundance of caution on Tuesday may have cost the city a lot of money.
