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.
Active shooters go through many stages of preparation that afford the opportunity for their plans to be thwarted by both law enforcement and the community
All tips are moved through a process that ensures they will receive swift attention from the appropriate administrator or law enforcement agency
Smoke alarm-sized sensors were activated by the sounds of gunfire, and police officers immediately were able to track the shooter’s movements
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle said 15-year-old Andrew Fryberg died Friday evening of his wounds
Police said they found three crude, homemade explosive devices and a gun at the 16-year-old’s home
Hundreds lined the entrance as the school reopened Monday, over a week after a student fatally shot three of his classmates and wounded two others
2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary has forced school safety experts to rethink their approach
14-year-old girl has died, raising the death toll in the shooting to three, including the gunman
Tribal members struggled to find answers Saturday following a shooting at a high school in which a young gunman from a prominent Tulalip family opened fire
Detectives confirmed a cafeteria worker attempted to intervene
He killed a female student and wounded two of his cousins and two others before turning the gun on himself
A student opened fire Friday in a high school cafeteria north of Seattle, killing at least one person and shooting several others in the head before killing himself
Gunman with a scarf over his face shot to death a Canadian soldier standing guard at the nation’s war memorial Wednesday, then stormed Parliament
The calls were among four to 911 released by Louisville police on Thursday
City officials ordered the review by an outside company amid questions about why emergency medical personnel didn’t get into the theater until nearly 24 minutes after the attack
California will become the first state that allows family members to ask a judge to remove firearms from a relative who appears to pose a threat
It is important to build a partnership between law enforcement and the citizens that you protect to help ensure the safety of human life and the protection of assets
An average of six shootings occurred in the first seven years that were studied. That average rose to 16 shootings per year in the past seven years
Gunman was killed along with two other people in the Tuesday morning gunfire
The school district is receiving more money for counseling and other services for parents, students and staff members
In St. Charles Parish, the law enforcers and educators leveraged a strong relationship and a mutual desire to protect kids in their classrooms to win the 2014 National School Safety Award
Family members and police could ask courts to take away a mentally disturbed person’s guns under the bill
An online gamer’s video shows the moment armed officers burst into an office Wednesday afternoon to investigate a report of an active shooter
More than 300 pages of police reports on the June 5 shooting describe a frantic scene as officers tried to assist victims who lay bleeding as well as find the gunman
Investigators acting on a tip unraveled a plot to carry out a mass shooting at an LA high school, arresting 2 students who planned to kill as many people as possible
The teen, who was arrested after investigators served a search warrant at his home, wrote the posts to get a reaction from his friends
Police in Wash. are asking the public to stop tweeting during shootings and manhunts to avoid accidentally telling the bad guys what cops are doing
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