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.
Every campus-based law enforcement agency must examine its active shooter response training and response protocols to a school shooting
Initial responding officers must evaluate quickly, move to the sound of the guns, gathering intelligence on the move
A recently passed bill that will allow armed school employees in Ohio has sparked controversy and debate among police and teacher unions
The retired officer shot the man who police said fired at random people during a multi-county crime spree
Once an officer receives a tactical vest, they need to be trained in their use to be able to knowledgeably and quickly add or reduce coverage
Training to use an armored vehicle to breach a building is critical for successful deployment during tactical response
The footage may show what actions deputies took during and shortly after the massacre
Some LEOs and other first responders say the scale, sadness and sometimes sheer gruesomeness of their experiences haunt them
One of the recently released videos from the Oct. 1 attack shows police guarding the audience at an 1,800-seat Cirque du Soleil show
No children were in the school when the shooting happened
Police said Jarrod Ramos sent three threatening letters on the day of the attack, including one that said he was on his way to the Capital Gazette to “kill as many people” as he could
An officer’s self-described freeze is prompting a review of whether lives could have been saved if officers had acted faster to stop the shooting
Understanding how a vest protects officers is critical to ensuring daily wear of ballistic protection
The man accused of killing five at a Maryland newspaper was investigated in 2013 for menacing tweets against staff members
Three editors, a reporter and a sales assistant were killed in the Thursday afternoon rampage
Body camera footage from officers responding to a shooting at a New Jersey all-night arts festival shows police telling people to go home shortly before shots rang out
The suspect’s rampage at The Capital Gazette followed social media threats directed at the newspaper
The video is a part of the latest release of public records from the mass shooting
FBI study looks at what happened in the lives of shooters before the violence to find behavioral predictors of likely mass killers
Officer Michael Leonard tracked down the gunman, who killed 17 people during the February shooting, about three miles away from the school
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released 23 videos and 130 audio files, including 911 calls
Officer John Barnes was critically wounded in the May 18 shooting after confronting the gunman
Authorities have said several neighborhood gangs had a dispute, and multiple suspects began shooting at each other
A gunman injured a teen and shot a man in a pair of carjacking attempts, before being killed by a bystander
The new security measures will include walk-through metal detectors at all entrances of the high school and both middle schools
Virginia Beach police have charged two teens with conspiracy to commit a terrorist act
Progress has been made in developing active shooter protocols since Columbine, but the Pulse attack shows we still haven’t anticipated all the possibilities
The After-Action Review is an extremely effective method of analyzing what occurred and how to improve performance in the future
Members of the association recently gathered in Nashville, Tennessee to consider measures to prevent gun violence in wake of recent mass shootings
Capt. Jan Jordan, who was in charge during the deadly Parkland school shooting, has faced criticism for the agency’s response to the massacre
Some of the surviving victims are filing a lawsuit in federal court, saying the city and police didn’t do enough to try to stop the shooter
Officer John Barnes had been in intensive care since being shot while confronting the gunman who killed 10 at Santa Fe High School last month
Police in Las Vegas released 911 calls and video relating to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history