Gun Violence Archive

• Iterate.ai's Threat Awareness technology detects guns, knives, kevlar vests and masks using existing cameras.
• After developing the Threat Awareness technology, the Iterate.ai team realized that it could be deployed in schools, churches and other areas that have been and are targeted for mass shootings.
• With the Threat Awareness technology being available for anyone to use, we hope to increase the security and safety of places we frequent," Nordmark explains.
• Iterate's Threat Awareness technology is a step in the right direction at reducing gun violence in the United States.

• Some commentators are questioning whether security fears surrounding gun violence and mass shootings could keep international fans away from the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Los Angeles.
• No other developed nation has mass shootings at the same scale or frequency as the US.
• Estimates suggest that Americans own 393 million of the 857 million civilian guns available, around 46% of the world’s civilian gun ownership.
• A 2013 report by the European Commission found just 5% of EU citizens owned a gun, compared to around 32% of Americans in 2020.

Tourism and violence

• In June 2015, a mass shooting took place in the Tunisian resort of Port El Kantaoui, killing 39 people, mostly tourists.
• The massacre dramatically affected Tunisia’s tourism industry and thousands lost their jobs.
• Research found that even in other Muslim countries that had no connection to the attack, their tourism industries were negatively impacted.

How do nations protect tourists?

• Some places opt to cocoon their tourists in enclave resorts, where they are protected in specific zones.
• The Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, for example, has been encircled by a 22-mile long, six-metre high wall, to protect its tourists after several violent incidents shook the Egyptian tourism industry.
• Although these measures may seem unrealistic for the US, some areas that rely heavily on tourism have already put controls in place to protect their visitors.

• Crawford AuSable selected ZeroEyes to keep its community safe amidst rising US mass shooting rates; the Gun Violence Archive has identified more than 100 mass shootings in 2023 to date .
• The school district is located in Crawford County in Northern Michigan and comprises four schools serving over 1,600 preschool and K-12 students.
• The Crawford AuSable School District will conduct on-site testing of ZeroEyes' technology the morning of March 15, 2023.
• "Crawford AuSable School District has taken proactive measures to mitigate a potential mass shooting, and other school districts should look to them as a shining example.

• Active shooter training events are designed to improve active shooter prevention tactics and boost first responder and police response to future gun threats.
• "When we conducted an active shooter drill in 2019, it took law enforcement three minutes to reach the active shooter without ZeroEyes, and only 30 seconds with ZeroEyes," said Dr. Christopher Heilig, Superintendent, Rancocas Valley Regional High School.
• By participating in active shooter training events across the U.S., we hope to demonstrate how threat intelligence provided by ZeroEyes can help schools and law enforcement respond to gun-related threats more swiftly and efficiently."
• The ZeroEyes team also provides tech consulting, installation assistance and practice drills for active shooter events to enhance safety at schools, corporate and government facilities.