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.
Capt. Michael Curry appreciates the realism, flexibility and cost savings offered by Laser Shot’s training simulator
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Why aren’t we as a society focusing more on efficient training for those involved in the incident prior to the arrival of responders?
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
The gunman, identified as 59-year-old Rockne Newell, indiscriminately fired shots Monday night as he barged into a meeting
Pedro Alberto Vargas watched movie after movie involving shootings, seeking creative inspiration for his own draft screenplay
Legal opinion issued by office says that instructors, staff cannot be employed as security guards; Clarksville School District had planned to have 20 teachers/staff armed with 9mm handguns
After undergoing 53 hours of training, the assistant principal and teachers at the school will be considered guards, and will be armed
Negotiators and a SWAT team tried talking with him from the other side of the door of an apartment unit where he was holding hostages
The ‘run, hide, fight’ method of defending against an active shooter has police re-training civilians
Suspect Barry White Jr., went to the Victoga jewelry store to dispute a purchase he had made
23-year-old Barry White was arrested and booked on 2 counts of murder and 7 counts of attempted murder
The gunman surrendered when officers approached him from both sides
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