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.
A Florida woman traveled to Colorado to possibly carry out a Columbine-inspired attack, which ended in her suicide. Could red flag laws have prevented this?
When responding to an active shooter incident, you need the right stuff, you need to take out the right target and you need to address the threat right now
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
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
Floyd Corkins II was sentenced Thursday for the 2012 attempted shooting at a Christian lobbying group
One witness was nearly a victim of the Navy Yard shooting that killed 12
The attack on Building 197 in the Washington Navy Yard underscores similarities in response for active shooter and terror scenarios, and reinforces the lesson that training should be multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional
The boy downloaded an app for his phone that uses the real backdrop as the setting for the violent game
34-year-old Aaron Alexis, a military contract worker, opened fire killing 12 and wounding several more, including an officer
A state board voted Wednesday to allow 13 school districts in Arkansas to continue using teachers as armed guards
A school resource officer heard shots fired during a fire drill, a 15-year old was wounded
An armed security presence is now standard in many of the nation’s middle and high schools
20-year-old Michael Brandon Hill toted AK-47 into elementary school; librarian convinced him to surrender after Hill said he ‘should have went to the mental hospital’
No one was injured at the elementary school where Michael Brandon Hill, 20, fired 6 shots before surrendering, he was charged with assault on an officer and terroristic threats
The training was a community effort that brought together local, state, and federal agencies
In an active shooter situation, there’s no time to wait for backup
All students and teachers are accounted for and safe, there are no reports of injuries
The man shot a bus driver, then fled police and hopped an another bus before being fatally wounded
The officers had to make a “life-and-death” decision whether to shoot the suspect, who was on a bus with passengers
The man is being hailed a hero for wrestling the shooter to the ground with the help of other witnesses
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