GWU Locking Down Fearing Post-Election Violence

WASHINGTON - Nov. 3, 2024 - PRLog -- Reacting to the growing number of predictions of serious violence following Election Day - especially in D.C. where some stores are already boarding up, and some residents are planning to leave town temporarily - the George Washington University [GWU] has already coordinated additional campus safety and preparedness measures with District, state, and federal agencies.

More importantly, it will compleely close some campus buildings and lock down all others, establish an emergency operations center to deal with outbreaks of violence, and possibly return to on-line classes over the Internet to keep students and faculty safe from violence; violence which experts say is likely regardless of who is elected or appears to be elected, and warn that definitive election results might not be known for some time.

These pro-active measures and several others came at the suggestion of public interest law professor John Banzhaf of GWU, a former security officer and security consultant, who is also the author of an internationally published study on steps universities should take to keep their students and faculty safe from another important concern; the growing threat of a crazed shooter coming onto its campus.
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Just before the 2020 election, GWU officials were so concerned about the outbreak of violence that they recommended that students stock up on food and other supplies for up to one week past Election Day.

However, while many pundits are predicting that, for many reasons, this year's presidential election will be far more contentious and violence prone, GWU has yet to make a similar recommendation regarding the stockpiling of food - perhaps only because there are today more eating facilities in GWU buildings or on its campus.

Although GWU has adopted some of the safety recommendations Prof Banzhaf made to its key administrators and members of its Faculty Senate, others have yet to be implemented.

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