Mass Casualty Incidents
The Mass Casualty Incidents topic page provides news, videos and expert columns about dealing with large-scale incidents including terrorist attacks, dirty bombs, natural disasters and more.
We might want SWAT at every public venue, but we just don’t have the money and resources to do it
From active shooter response protocols to screening processes for new recruits, police leaders will face many challenges in the coming year
From lip sync battles to policing the homeless to immigration enforcement, 2018 was a big year for issues in law enforcement
Sidney A. Muller fatally shot 4 after a drug deal went wrong - including a man and his son delivering newspapers
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
Hasan, 42, is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder
In response to the glamorized cover photo that appeared on the Rolling Stone magazine cover, he showed what he called “the real Boston bomber”
Officer Joseph Reynolds was the first cop to lay eyes on the brothers — and the first to take fire
Such continued violence underscores why the governor dramatically altered a gun bill that will end Illinois’ last-in-the nation ban on carrying concealed firearms
The staff at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center has won praise from officials and colleagues around the country for their work that day
A U.S. grand jury returned a 30-count indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that included using a weapon of mass destruction
Officers believed everyone involved was accounted for but wouldn’t say whether the shooter was among those shot
Seven years before he went on Friday’s rampage, John Zawahri kept bomb-making materials at his house and threatened students, teachers and campus police officers
The university says state, federal and local law enforcement agencies are investigating
Marcela Franco, 26, died of her injuries sustained at the Santa Monica community college shooting
The “cowardly murderer” planned the attack and was capable of firing 1,300 rounds, said the chief of police
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
Holmes’ lawyers repeatedly have said he is mentally ill, but they delayed the insanity plea while arguing state laws were unconstitutional
Surveillance footage shows the brothers jumping rope with a friend, relaxed, just 3 days before the bombing
Officer Mark Snavely caught the disastrous storm on his dash cam before spending his day looking for survivors
Authorities are working to complete the investigation as quickly as they can but want to make sure they do a thorough and accurate job
Esteban J. Smith died in a gunfight with an agency trooper and a state game warden after shooting 6 people at random
In separate incidents, 6 were killed and 11 were wounded
Two men attacked another man believed to be a soldier near a London military barracks, two suspects were shot by police
Debris was in heaps; it looked like a war zone, said the detective, who is a bomb squad technician
Of the 24 people that have been confirmed dead, 7 are children, and another 120 are being treated at hospitals
Jeremiah Bean was arraigned Thursday on 19 counts, including first-degree murder, arson and burglary
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote that the bombings were collateral damage for the wars on Muslim land
Akein Scott of New Orleans is being sought based on several identifiers from the surveillance footage
Two slain couples were found blocks away from each other, a fifth person was found in a ditch near an infamous brothel
Police have vowed to find the person responsible for the mass shooting
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
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