Columbine

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.

Police1 coverage of the Columbine school shooting includes lessons from a SWAT cop who responded to Columbine, solutions for stopping school massacres and how to form a threat assessment team.

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Surviving Columbine but still struggling with the darkness
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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
The dangerously mentally ill: Spotting the signs to prevent tragedy
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Part two of an active killers series explores behavioral cues of the dangerously mentally ill
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How the story of the Columbine gunmen defies any prototype
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Klebold and Harris managed to forever change the way law enforcement looked at active shooter situations
15 years after Columbine: Why our approach to school killers is a misfire
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No policy or legislation could address even half of the unique circumstances of school murders
15 years after Columbine: How the media turned me into a 'gun control advocate'
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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
15 years after Columbine: 15 'big ideas' for stopping school massacres
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“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
A decade after Columbine we're still learning, teaching
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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...
The Columbine High School Incident - Fact and Fiction
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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...
Columbine, Green Bay, and Warfighting
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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...
Columbine Lesson: Cops Trained to Rush in, Not Wait, in School Crisis
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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...