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.
While hindsight is 20/20, looking back over the past two decades we can identify several red flags that could have been raised on the Columbine shooters
Police response to school shooters has changed dramatically since Columbine, but what work remains to be done to protect our schools?
The rapid movement of the killer from one scene to the next made the attacks incredibly disorienting and highly complicated the police response
A duffel bag also contained a handwritten letter stating he’d “made the conscious decision to try to kill” multiple TSA employees and that he wanted to “instill fear in their traitorous minds”
Gerardo I. Hernandez, 39, became the first TSA officer in the agency’s 12-year history to be killed in the line of duty
The gunman opened fire early Friday morning, forcing an evacuation of Terminal 3
Behind the scenes with the countless volunteers who make Urban Shield training so valuable — ‘victims’ will never fully know the good they did this weekend
Scenario #19 at Urban Shield 2013 challenged the competing SWAT teams to incorporate personnel from the Fremont (Calif.) Fire Department into their plans to deal with an active shooter
Students returning to school for the first time since last week’s shooting will be greeted by extra police officers
The wounded — a major and a sergeant major who had both served overseas — were expected to be released from a Memphis hospital soon
A Navy recruiter who had been relieved of duty shot two people at a Navy base north of Memphis
When naming Abington, Pennsylvania as one of the top 100 places to live, Money Magazine identified safety and education as the top two aspects of their evaluation
45-year-old former serviceman Michael Landsberry was killed trying to protect students from gunfire
Shooting occured after the 65-year-old man had an argument with his girlfriend
The violence erupted around 7:15 a.m., shortly before classes began Monday
Attorney General says local police must sometimes be the first law enforcement officers to fire back in mass shootings
The defense said court orders used to obtain emails were too broad
Each faces five counts of shooting with intent to kill plus firearms charges for the shooting at a New Years event
Taking on two squads of attackers who are likely to be trained in military tactics will be daunting for an unprepared police officer
Sheriff’s spokesman Chris Curtice said shots were still fired when deputies arrived
Staff within the Capitol were warned to stay indoors and away from windows as police locked down the area
The Colt 6920 M4 carbine rifles — one for each school — would be locked in the vehicles of school resource officers when the schools aren’t in session
What we can learn from the heroism and difficulties officers experienced at Oak Creek
The gunman tried firing at least 5 times in the restaurant, unsuccessfully
A counterpoint to Chuck Remsberg’s thought-provoking article on tactical loitering
Footage shows Aaron Alexis arriving to the Navy Yard and stalking the hallways with his gun in-hand
The gunman exchanged gunfire with police then fled to the college campus where he was tracked down and refused to surrender
The ATF is the federal agency in charge of tracing guns used in crimes
Child’s uncle reports dreadlocked man in gray sedan opened fire at random
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