Police Warn Students About School Threats

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Police chiefs all over Michigan are warning young people about the dangers of making threats against their schools. Warren Police Chief William Dwyer tells Michigan News Network he is talking to students, going to school assemblies and emphasizing that making a threat of terrorism will likely get them arrested and charged with a 20 year felony. Dwyer says school threats have now become a national problem.

“In the majority of these cases, we’re working with the FBI,” Dwyer said. “We’re receiving information from the FBI as far as some of these social media threats. So, it’s going to be the federal, state, and local working together now because of the level of the threats and the amount of threats.”

Dwyer says the parents need to monitor social media and perhaps, and in some circumstances, the parents need to be charged as well. More than two dozen schools were shut down in the Detroit area Thursday due to threats. Here in southwest Michigan, Bangor Public Schools were closed on Thursday because of a threat found written in a restroom stall.