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.
As demands for police reform and defunding continue nationwide, some cities have severed ties with their school resource officers
While in-person training and public outreach events have been postponed this year, social media is a great platform to discuss the importance of hemorrhage control
Life-threatening hemorrhages are a huge threat to officers who have been injured in the line of duty
Simultaneous terrorist attacks are today’s reality, planning and training your police department for an effective response will save lives
Learning from an event and applying those lessons in training will improve your department’s future response
Authorities said the shooting began Wednesday afternoon at the teen’s house about 2 miles from rural Townville Elementary School
A teenager killed his father at their home Wednesday before going to a nearby elementary school and opening fire with a handgun, wounding two students and a teacher
As the small city an hour north of Seattle struggled to make sense of the carnage, an unsettling portrait emerged of the man authorities say was the shooter
A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had more than 2,500 rounds of live ammo when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood
A disgruntled lawyer who had numerous weapons randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday morning
Authorities are looking for the gunman who shot and killed three people at a mall north of Seattle
An effective rescue task force response to reduce active shooter casualties starts with planning and training between all public safety responders
Paramedics entered the hot zone and retrieved the wounded cops during the active shooter incident
SWAT teams should keep a watchful eye on the future in order to prepare for the worst
Regional SWAT teams aren’t for every agency, but they can provide a great service to those who need it
If one truly understands the multiple roles of an officer, they will also understand the roles are not mutually exclusive and can coexist at the same time
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A female student shot another girl at Alpine High School before turning the gun on herself
Individual skills qualify a person for SWAT, but the ability to operate within a team during high-risk operations is what makes a person become SWAT
Many trainers are either forgetting a very important element of active shooter tactical response or are simply unaware of it
Two hard body armor kits will be placed in each of the approximately 60 patrol cars for officers to slip on during an active shooting scenario
Audio recordings of 911 calls were released Tuesday
We need to take our equipment and training to the next level in order to be a step above everyone else when it comes to our rifle skills
Once the shooter is dead or apprehended, the top mission for police and EMS is to stop the dying from bleeding and airway compromise
The mass shootings in Orlando, Dallas and elsewhere have prompted the nation’s largest PD to accelerate a $7.5M program to distribute heavy-duty body armor
The officers tracked the suspects and prevailed in a gun battle, preventing the attackers from doing further harm and rescuing a fellow LEO in the effort
The man who shot and killed three people was so unfamiliar with his newly purchased AR-15 that he parked his car across the street and read the manual
The NYPD ordered about $7.5M worth of new vests and helmets
Police officers spend a considerable amount of time preparing their responses to active shooter scenarios
Police officials piecing together a portrait of the shooter said he was seeing a doctor up to last month for treatment of depression and psychiatric problems
The gunman whose rampage at a Munich mall left nine people dead was a depression-plagued teenager who avidly read books and articles about mass killings
All trains, trams, buses and subways in the city have been shut down during the police operation, and police have urged residents to stay indoors
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