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.
T.E.A.M. is a proactive effort to make schools and communities safer, promote responsible citizenship and encourage positive character traits
Planning active shooter response training with police, fire, EMS, trauma docs and medivac helicopters is a complex and challenging task
Virtual reality simulators allow trainers to expose cops to real-life situations that are consistently reproducible for every officer
The civilian, who hopes to become a cop, didn’t fire in fear of shooting other innocent civilians
Chances of being killed in a mass shooting, says Grant Duwe, a criminologist with the Minnesota Department of Corrections, are probably no greater than being struck by lightning
The Associated Press compiled all of the facts up to this point in the tragedy
Police say the gunman was not voluntarily let into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton
An officer and employees suffered injuries that are not considered life-threatening
Active shooters can be stopped long before someone dies by understanding that most shooters pass through a fantasy stage, planning stage, preparation stage, approach stage, and implementation stage
Should at least one teacher on every floor of every school in America be armed, trained, qualified, and ready/willing to end a deadly threat in their school?
Officials have confirmed the death toll at an elementary school shooting has reached 26 plus the gunman
Department has learned from past tragedies not to wait for SWAT to arrive
Both deputies were transported to USA Medical Center in Mobile, where Deputy Scott Ward was pronounced dead
Nahom Tseigazab has also been charged with two counts of second-degree murder and 23 counts of aggravated assault
Tactical Battle Swarming is a deliberately-structured, coordinated, strategic way to strike an adversary from all directions
Suspect was a military veteran believed to be in poor health
The officer and suspect were both shot in the exchange of gunfire Sunday afternoon
The officer was hit in the leg by one suspect, returned fire hit robber in ‘lower extremities’
At least one gunman opened fire late Saturday injuring 7, still at large
Sheriff’s report claims agents were in contact before they opened fire, killing 1
Officers are searching for anything out of the norm where the suspect is believed to have fired on two dozen vehicles
An argument caused the gunfire, critically injuring 1 and wounding 3 bystanders
Three months and several surgeries later, the officer relives the gun battle that almost killed him
24 shootings so far in 4 counties, suspect described as male in his 30’s
The officer told investigators he approached four men in private zone to see ask why they were there
The Bronx cab driver says he’d probably be dead if not for the heroic officer
Calif. family owned a fire extinguisher business, unknown suspect still at large after fleeing in one of their cars
Officers discover the bodies of a 19-year police veteran, his girlfriend, and her ex-husband
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