On April 20, 1999, two heavily armed teenage boys entered Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, and murdered 12 students and one teacher. The shooting led law enforcement nationwide to reassess response tactics to active shooter events, moving from a strategy of containment to one of Immediate Action Rapid Deployment.
It is not his proximity to death that day that occupied Keith’s thoughts during the ensuing months and years, nor even the question of why he lived and others didn’t
Judges and juries expect police-shot videos to be broadcast-quality, and may view inferior videos with out-of-sync audio as proof of evidence tampering
If an active shooter is not stopped as they progress through the first four phases, the only way they can be stopped is by my version of gun control during the fifth phase — here’s my definition of gun control
“We need to make a stand right now that our schools need to be the most important thing we have in this country — not Wall Street, not Capitol Hill, our schools.” — Coach Frank Hall
I remember sitting in the LETN newsroom ten years ago, scanning the early reports of a terrible shooting in a high school in Colorado. It seemed to me like a Stephen King novel had come to life. Wh...
G. Dwayne Fuselier, Ph.D. The April 20, 1999, school shootings and use of homemade pipe bombs at Columbine High School garnered months of front page attention from media and law enforcement agencie...
By Dave Smith Newsline The fortunate discovery of a plan by some Green Bay high school students to replicate the tragedy of Columbine reminds us of the need to reflect on how we, as first responder...
Nicholas K. Geranios, The Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The first report that a person with a handgun was inside Lewis and Clark High School arrived at 11:10 a.m. Within 14 minutes, offic...