New York Times | “He Looked for Ways to Stop Mass Violence”
The New York Times interviewed Dr. David Eisenman, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about federal funding for research.
The New York Times interviewed Dr. David Eisenman, a physician and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences who serves as director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters, about reductions in federal funding for research into preventing school shootings.
"The premise was that in targeted violence, mass violence, about half the time the perpetrator “leaks” their plans and intentions,“ Eisenman said. "One morning last March I saw an email with a stop work order from the Department of Homeland Security. We had to stop the project right then and there. We had to lay off staff immediately. The papers we were writing, we had to stop. And the plans for further research just stopped. And that was it, end of project. We never got our results out to the world.”
