Active Shooter
The Active Shooter topic gives patrol officers and SWAT team members an invaluable resource to find news articles, tactical tips and expert commentary for active shooter response.
“A lot goes through your mind when you are driving to an in-progress active shooter at your own son’s school. I was thinking about my son and all my son’s friends. It’s hard to explain, but it was surreal.”
“It’s critically important that as many perspectives as possible come to the table in the assessment of risk or threat as well as assessing potential protective factors.”
How law enforcement and educators can develop effective threat assessment teams to stop school violence
Investigators haven’t said what caused suspects to begin firing into the group of hundreds
The suspect opened fire on a parking lot with a rifle, then fled the scene
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The LEO was shot early Wednesday in an “ambush” attack by a gunman intent on harming or killing police
The solider struck a man who was shooting randomly at people near an Army base with a vehicle and trapped him under the car until police arrived
Police say the 20-year-old man planned to harm 10 people because he felt he “had been bullied in his life”
Officials said the gunman voiced support online for hardline clerics and jihadi figures
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One person is in critical condition following the Wednesday night shooting
“The best we can tell is a car drove by and shots were fired and it was pure chaos from there,” Bogalusa Police Maj. Troy Tervalon said
Witnesses told police fireworks were set off in the park’s center followed by about 30 rounds of gunfire
15 law enforcement officers were wounded and two were killed during some of 28 incidents last year
Life-threatening hemorrhages are a huge threat to officers who have been injured in the line of duty
The man wounded officers in two separate shootings, then barricaded himself inside a home and set it on fire
Guillermo “Memo” Garcia was with his family on the morning of the killings, fund-raising for his daughter’s soccer team in the store’s parking lot
A highly mobile killer went on a 60-mile, 12-hour spree that ended with 18 killed, including an RCMP constable
The man hijacked the bus with two people aboard leading officers on a pursuit that ended with the man killed and three officers wounded
The officer has been identified as Const. Heidi Stevenson, a mother of two and a 23-year veteran of the RCMP
A pilot study tested whether explosive detection K-9 teams could be an asset to law enforcement during an active shooter incident
Deputy Police Chief Scott Gray is always armed off duty, just in case. When a 21-year-old man walked into a grocery store with a gun, Gray was ready
Officer Christopher Walsh was killed as he responded to an active shooting at a Springfield convenience store
These tactics and techniques have a broad application and are useful for many patrol scenarios
Authorities are still investigating the 2019 shooting as a possible act of terrorism
A gunman opened fire Wednesday at Milwaukee’s Molson Coors brewery complex, killing five people before taking his own life
In large-scale emergencies, police, fire, EMS, and a wide variety of other governmental organizations and private enterprises need to pull together
The officers were wounded after confronting an armed man inside a Walmart
Security companies are using police-like tactics to train churchgoers who fear the next attack could target their house of worship
Fire, EMS and law enforcement personnel can play an important role in the layers of safety that protect religious gatherings in the event of an emergency
Campus police are investigating the incident
Investigators are tracing the gun used in the shooting, which was found on the bus after the driver escorted the shooter off
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