Awareness and caution are the prevailing calls from Anne Arundel County Police amidst a disturbing uptick in school threat reports across Maryland. With students having barely settled into the new academic year, the community has been shaken by a series of threats amplified by social media. According to WBAL-TV, Anne Arundel County spokesperson Justin Mulcahy indicated that there have been 42 statewide school threat tips in the past 36 hours, and 14 were directed to their homeland security section in just 24 hours.