Police and school officials all care about school safety, but we rarely speak the same language. Worse than that, even if we are on the same page, both police and school officials are constantly being asked to do more with less time and resources. In major active killer incidents nationwide, many community stakeholders had key pieces to the puzzle that could have alerted authorities prior to the attacks, but too often those stakeholders do not communicate or follow-up with each other. This presentation shares two science-backed methods of triaging student behavior and alarming fact patterns reported to officials. Key phrase: we must collect the dots to connect the dots!