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.
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
Capt. Michael Curry appreciates the realism, flexibility and cost savings offered by Laser Shot’s training simulator
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
The suspect was shot by officers at the entrance of the store; the conditions of the suspect and victims hasn’t been released
Police are looking to create a cross-department streamlined response to any shooting so all cops are prepared
Marcela Franco, 26, died of her injuries sustained at the Santa Monica community college shooting
The gunman killed his father and brother, and another man and woman before police killed him
He killed two people in a home then made his way to a college where he kept firing; police killed him in a shootout
During training, public safety personnel learned they can do both: police seeking out the threat and at the same time providing a protective screen for rescue workers as they do their jobs
Esteban J. Smith died in a gunfight with an agency trooper and a state game warden after shooting 6 people at random
Media related to Newtown shootings, including 911 audio recordings, would require written consent of victims’ family members for release
Officers were involved in the shooting, though it is unclear how many shots were fired and who shot the intruder and student
Police Chief Eric Blanchard said it will give employees a better chance at stopping a mass shooting before police are able to arrive on scene
Mother’s Day parade incident left 19 people wounded; 19-year-old Akein Scott was identified from surveillance video
The active-shooter training at Pompano Beach High School was designed to evaluate the multi-disciplinary, multi-team, coordinated response
To promote its premiere of the new Iron Man movie, a theater in Jefferson City, Missouri, hired several people to dress in full tactical gear and storm the screening
Teachers at an Oregon school were shocked when two armed, masked men entered during a meeting
Can you spot the six basic telltale emotions of fear, anger, sadness, happiness, disgust, and/or contempt?
Neil Allan MacInnis faces two counts each of malicious wounding and using a firearm in the commission of a felony
Two women were shot at a mall branch of a community college before the suspect was subdued by police
Despite traditional advice, citizens may need to act in a way they haven’t been trained for or equipped to deal with
When it comes to reducing gun violence in America, nobody else in the country has anything close to the experience-based perspective from which cops can speak
30-year-old student planned to use firearms, explosives to attack fleeing students after pulling fire alarm
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