Letters

To the Editor:

Your front-page article on the profiling of potentially violent youthful offenders raises some very important issues ( "FBI 'Profiling' Help Worries Educators," Oct. 6, 1999).

On one hand, mental-health and law-enforcement officials are on target in supporting the need for increased training and attention to the so-called "early warning signs" that may appear before an actual incident. Unquestionably, red flags existed in a majority, if not all, of the cases of high-profile school violence. To ignore these potential indicators, and to ignore the need for training school officials on these issues, would amount to...