Bloomberg's Snitch Network Is Already Inside Your Kid's School

The Trace isn't a newsroom. It's a messaging operation bankrolled by Bloomberg's Everytown empire—and this week it deployed that operation to launder a surveillance apparatus as "prevention science."

Here's the study they're promoting: Jaclyn Schildkraut at the Rockefeller Institute of Government combed through 150,000-plus pages of police records and court transcripts to argue that mass shooters almost always telegraph their intentions beforehand. Researchers call it "leakage." The Trace calls it hope. **You should call it what it is: the intellectual scaffolding for a federal snitch network.**

The feel-good framing is deliberate. If shooters always "leak" warning signs, the logical next move—the one gun-control architects have been waiting years to mainstream—is mandatory school reporting systems, social media surveillance partnerships, and red-flag-style intervention triggers hardwired into every institution your kids pass through daily.

Schildkraut didn't hide the real frustration. It isn't that threats go undetected. It's that people who *spot* them don't always call the authorities. Her solution? Make the reporting infrastructure impossible to ignore. That's not a scientist talking. **That's a federal tip-line wearing a lab coat.**

And the Rockefeller Institute isn't staying in the ivory tower. Schildkraut's team already briefs law enforcement and school administrators. During their own research, they spotted a Reddit post and personally contacted the FBI. Researchers acting as de facto federal informants—then publishing papers explaining why everyone else should do the same.

Now run the red-flag equation. Authorities strip your firearms on a single third-party report. No conviction. No due process. No guaranteed hearing. These researchers, funded by your tax dollars, just published peer-reviewed justification for why those reports should be generated *faster*, from *more* sources, with *less hesitation*.

**None of this touches an actual criminal.** Every bit of it builds a surveillance architecture around law-abiding gun owners, their children, and anyone who posts about firearms online.

The Trace will wave this study at Congress and demand funding for more "leakage" intervention programs. Those programs feed directly into the red-flag pipeline that five states are currently fighting to classify as a felony to enforce. The Rockefeller Institute's Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium is already positioned to become the institutional spine of that system—and it runs straight through your kid's school counselor's office.

This is how the architecture gets built. Not by a vote. Not by a law you can fight at the ballot box. By federally funded academics publishing studies that make the surveillance machinery feel inevitable—while Bloomberg's newsroom makes sure every school administrator, every HR director, and every panicked parent reads about it first.

**Watch this closely.** The next move is a congressional push to fund "leakage" intervention programs at scale. When that bill drops, the Rockefeller Institute's study will be Exhibit A. Contact your representatives now and demand they defund the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium before it becomes the permanent, peer-reviewed backbone of a snitch network with no off switch.