{"id":69197,"date":"2025-12-12T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69197\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:01:07","slug":"nycs-brooklyn-latin-school-plagued-by-untraceable-bomb-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69197\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s Brooklyn Latin School plagued by untraceable bomb threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

A highly competitive Brooklyn high school has been plagued with untraceable bomb threats<\/a> \u201calmost every single day\u201d for months \u2014 leaving students and parents terrified, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

The NYPD has not been able to track down the sicko or sickos who have been targeting the Brooklyn Latin School since at least May, and some fearful families said they\u2019re considering ditching the sprawling campus for safer options.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it\u2019s happening a lot and they\u2019re not really telling us what\u2019s going on,\u201d one freshman said of the school administration during dismissal on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"StudentsA sicko has been making bomb threats to the Brooklyn Latin School since last spring. Georgett Roberts \/ NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI am slightly nervous because we don\u2019t have the information to know what\u2019s going on. They kind of protect us by not letting us know,\u201d she told The Post.<\/p>\n

The student said she and her classmates at Brooklyn Latin \u2014 one of the city\u2019s eight elite specialized public high schools \u2014 have been dealing with what feels like near-constant alarms ringing through the halls, making them nervous.<\/p>\n

The alarms are followed by \u201cshelter-ins,\u201d where the building goes into lockdown, with kids forced to remain inside, until classes are eventually allowed to resume. Other times, the school is instead placed on \u201chold,\u201d where kids don\u2019t leave their classrooms, students said.<\/p>\n

Cops said none of the threats have been deemed credible, and that the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

The disturbing situation was revealed this week by frustrated mom Gillian Telling, who wrote in a People article<\/a> that there was \u201cno end in sight\u201d to parents\u2019 distress.<\/p>\n

All the calls have apparently been directed at Brooklyn Latin, two other schools \u2014 Lyons Community School and Williamsburg High School of Arts + Technology \u2014 share the same Graham Avenue campus and are subjected to the same evacuations and fear.<\/p>\n

\"OutsideThe calls are made to the Brooklyn Latin school, but also affect the two other schools that share the same Graham Avenue campus. Georgett Roberts \/ NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI am afraid to send my children to school because we don\u2019t know exactly what\u2019s happening,\u201d said Manuel Aruz, 62, whose 16- and 14-year-old girls attend the WHSAT.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you see the police every week, you know something is wrong and we don\u2019t know exactly what it is,\u201d Aruz told The Post.<\/p>\n

Parents initially thought the threats were coming from kids looking to wriggle out of tests last spring \u2014 until the calls began surging this school year, after Labor Day in September.<\/p>\n

The NYPD has so far not been unable to trace the source because the calls are being made through a VPN, or virtual private network, which masks IP addresses and encrypts a user\u2019s data, Telling wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NYPD has seen a sharp increase in swatting threats targeting schools over the last two years \u2014 namely false bomb threats being called into schools in order to provoke a police response,\u201d a police department spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis practice is disruptive, illegal, and diverts necessary public safety resources from where they are needed.\u201d <\/p>\n

The NYPD said that staff from the local precinct and School Safety agents \u201chave continued to work closely with school officials regarding this investigation\u201d and that \u201cadditional police personnel continue to conduct patrols in and around the school.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the boost in police presence hasn\u2019t helped to put all families at ease, with multiple students saying the threats remain unsettling and distracting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel nervous knowing that there is a possible threat. It\u2019s almost every single day that we get a bomb threat,\u201d one 10th grader said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like \u2014 even though it\u2019s just a prank \u2014 it\u2019s still possible threatening,\u201d the student said, adding that authorities are \u201cvague\u201d about details.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is saying it\u2019s a joke, but it\u2019s really a serious thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

One math teacher, who declined to share his name, expressed frustration with the police\u2019s inability to stop the harassment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not an isolated situation where somebody calls something in and they have to identify whether it\u2019s real or fake and ultimately find out who called it in,\u201d the teacher said. \u201cIf they can track down Luigi Mangione in a McDonald\u2019s in Pennsylvania, they can find the person that\u2019s making these calls.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A WHSAT parent, who gave his name at Richardo, said he hoped the schools might reconsider the state-mandated cellphone ban<\/a> in light of the threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York is not a safe place anymore. It\u2019s like a gamble \u2013 you bring your kids to school. You expect to get them back the same way you bring them in,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happens if something is happening and they can\u2019t get in contact with us?\u201d he added. \u201cI only got one out of two or three alerts. I want to know right away so I can come and pick them up.\u00a0I would want to come and get my kids out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n

One student, Jacky, 14, said she\u2019s grown used to the bomb threats as just another part of her day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was fearful at first, the first few times, because I was really concerned about how common it was but now I just realized that it\u2019s really nothing,\u201d she said. \u201cThey haven\u2019t found anything so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna be serious. I just move on with my day.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the city Department of Education said: \u201cThe safety of our students and staff is our very top priority. We take every threat extremely seriously, including working directly with our local law enforcement partners, to keep every person in our community safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A highly competitive Brooklyn high school has been plagued with untraceable bomb threats \u201calmost every single day\u201d for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[17913,98,100,99,4337,57,9,24,63,103,209,58],"class_list":["post-69197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bomb-threats","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-department-of-education","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-public-schools","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}