Experts say recent workplace shootings highlight the dangers of copycat crimes.
Two tragic workplace shootings in recent weeks highlight what experts see as an insidious and growing element of violence in America - the copycat crime. The incidents are putting renewed pressure on businesses to devise suitable prevention strategies. The imitative nature of the crimes is also raising questions about the responsibility of the media in chronicling such events. Employees of the Navistar International plant in Melrose Park, Ill., console each other after a former employee killed five people, including himself, with an assault rife on Monday. But the workplace is an area where they have attracted some of the most attention.