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How can first responders address their individualized priorities while sharing the same goals?
In this podcast segment, Jim and Doug discuss the “Don’t Name Them” effort
Officers can better respond to what cannot be predicted if they are trained to make decisions under dangerous and rapidly changing conditions
Spread using apps, social media and Internet phone services, anonymous threats of violence are forcing school evacuations and responses by police
The video teaches employees and civilians how to respond during an active shooter incident
The strong magnet clips to the duty belt so the gun can be reloaded with one hand
Ryan Giroux was booked Thursday on suspicion of murder and other crimes, including armed robbery, auto theft, kidnapping and aggravated assault
Wednesday rampage included a motel shooting, a carjacking and a home invasion
Police captured suspect Tuesday, ending a massive manhunt that evoked memories of two snipers who killed 10 people in 2002 in the Washington area
Parents of 3 victims suing county, sheriff’s department and killer’s landlord, contending they ignored warning signs that gunman was violent and unstable
36-year-old Joseph Jesse Aldridge used a .45-caliber handgun to kill two people each at three homes
Gunman killed seven people and wounded an eighth person in an overnight house-to-house rampage in a small Missouri town
A young man went online to find ways to kill silently with a knife just before stabbing his first three victims — one of them 94 times
“Misinformed announcement” near a boarding area apparently stemmed from a police pursuit of an unarmed driver that ended outside Terminal 2
This year’s ceremony honored individuals who committed acts of valor between 2011 and 2013
The bag is designed to be used by a non-medical person during an incident where EMS can’t immediately access the injured due to scene safety restrictions
Suspects in a shooting outside a basketball game were still at large Thursday, and police said they haven’t ruled out any motives
Even as an unprecedented 9,000 prospective jurors were summoned for questioning, both sides in the mass murder trial are worried about letting too many potential jurors go
The most important thing Don taught the class was the value of time: time to educate and time to prepare
Police said Stephen Pasceri, 55, entered the hospital Tuesday morning and specifically requested the doctor
Police said the situation, which unfolded around 11 a.m. at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was “under control” and they had recovered a gun
Police responded to reports of shots fired around 9:30 a.m.
Commissioner William Bratton says the new training is based in part on lessons brought back from an NYPD team that was sent to Paris
Revealed Wednesday that a doctor was killed in a shooting at a veterans’ clinic, as agents interviewed hundreds of potential witnesses to determine a motive
A gunman opened fire at a veterans’ medical clinic in West Texas on Tuesday, killing one other person
The armed man walked into the waiting room and demanded to see a police officer
The judge wants to choose 12 jurors and 12 alternates to hear the case against James Holmes
Families filed a lawsuit Monday against the manufacturer, distributor and seller of the rifle used in the shooting
Authorities said they stopped the suspect’s vehicle around 1:30 a.m. and arrested a 22-year-old man
The town has begun reviewing ideas for a permanent memorial and the first construction work has begun on the new Sandy Hook Elementary School
A towing company owner killed his ex-girlfriend, two men she had romantic trysts with and the owner of a rival tow truck firm Monday
A manhunt was underway for a gunman suspected in three separate shootings Monday that left four dead in north-central West Virginia