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.
After attending this federally funded training, officers have a much better chance of helping themselves or another officer in a gunshot trauma scenario
Averted acts of school violence contain invaluable information regarding the strengths or potential weaknesses of current policies, procedures and training
NFPA 3000 is a framework for preparing fire departments, EMS agencies, law enforcement and communities for active shooter incident response and recovery
Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy was ambushed upon arrival
Every law enforcement officer in this country should be trained in tactical lifesaving skills so they can immediately render aid to trauma victims
Suspect joined the military in Milwaukee and was a repairman for the Hawk missile system in Texas
A second officer exchanged gunfire with the suspect and fatally shot him
University Chancellor Don Elliman has repeatedly said the school did all it could with regard to graduate student James E. Holmes
Colo. massacre prompts Houston PD to reveal active shooter safety video earlier than had been originally intended
In early June, psychiatrist Lynne Fenton called upon a campus behavioral and security committee about graduate student James Holmes
It’s impossible to know whether guards — often off-duty police officers — at the Aurora Century 16 would have spotted the suspected gunman
The film crew wrapped up the project two weeks before the July 20 shooting that left 12 dead in Aurora, Colo.
“Guns don’t kill people. I do,” read the suspect’s shirt when he was arrested
Theater shooting suspect sent a notebook with drawings and descriptions of an attack, several sources say
The program is led by qualified Lubbock officers who tailor the training to specific needs of individual venues
One officer in an urgent voice bluntly demanded ambulances, another said he would take a victim in his car
Victim shot three times: ‘I forgive him with all my heart’
Let’s look at a number of factors that may have put this particular attacker at such an advantage that almost no spontaneous resistance could be effective
We need to energize the public and educate them on how they can do a great deal to prevent these shootings
All three died Friday morning from gunshots they took while covering their girlfriends in the theatre
A “bizarre, freakish” voicemail greeting led staff to not accept James Holmes
Chief ‘and his officers have done everything right, by the book, with great determination,’ says President Obama
This type of criminal doesn’t show up on any law enforcement radar until after he’s acted
If our vision is obscured or our breathing is labored, our effort to stop the active shooter and rescue victims will be difficult
Calls between dispatch and police reveal officers trying to save the lives of victims in the chaos that followed the cinema shooting
Police and witnesses describe what happened during and immediately after the “Dark Knight Rises” rampage
Family members of 24-year-old James Holmes, the suspect in a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater, asked the media to respect their privacy
Opened fire inside a suburban movie theater, also wounding 59 others in worst attack in state since Columbine
One gunshot rang out, then about 20 seconds later everyone scattered
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