"It's part of a demonstration outside the National School Safety Conference. "We use drones to stop school shootings," says Justin Marston, the CEO of Campus Guardian Angel, the company selling the drones. In the event of a shooting, remote pilots fly the drones, housed at the school, at the shooter. They shoot pepper balls and run the drones into the shooter to debilitate them."
"According to the market research firm Omdia, the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it's projected to keep growing. "The school safety and security industry has grown rapidly over the past decade," says Sonali Rajan, senior director with the research arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates for gun control. "The challenge right now is that these school safety products, the vast majority, have absolutely no evidence guiding their effectiveness.""
Three drones are demonstrated to disable shooters by firing pepper balls and colliding with the attacker during an active shooter event. Remote pilots housed at a school would operate the drones to target a shooter. Commercial vendors now market a wide range of school security products including panic buttons, bullet‑resistant whiteboards, facial recognition, training simulators, body armor, guns, tasers, and metal detectors. The school security market is worth up to $4 billion and is projected to grow. Researchers and advocates warn that most school safety products lack evidence proving effectiveness. Schools have become a majority customer for some security manufacturers.
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