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cjustice
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Posted: Tue Apr 17th, 2007 06:56 am | 1st Post |
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“Active Shooter” is a phrase coined by law enforcement that describes an armed person who has used deadly physical force on persons and continues to do so while having unrestricted access to additional victims. The school shooting at Columbine and similar incidents have caused a paradigm-shift in law enforcement training and tactics. Instead of being taught to wait for a SWAT team to arrive, officers receive training on how to take immediate action during incidents that clearly involve suspects’ use of deadly force.
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http://criminal-justice-online.blogspot.com/2007/04/school-shootings-and-workplace-violence.html
Last edited on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 01:57 am by cjustice
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gwellsunion
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Posted: Fri Nov 28th, 2008 07:13 pm | 2nd Post |
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As a result of the 1999 “Columbine School Shooting” my Department implemented “Rapid Deployment” training to address an incident that involved suspect(s) deemed to be “Active Shooter(s).” At the time, I was a “Boot” Sergeant, assigned to a Patrol Division. I previously had the opportunity to serve on our Department’s SWAT Team before promoting to sergeant. My first week as a new Sergeant, I was tasked with provided roll-call training on “Rapid Deployment.” This roll-call training topic created deep discussion among my officers (This was great, as I believed that when we discuss or debrief scenarios and tactics everyone benefits).
Some officers believed the concept of Rapid Deployment, i.e. that the first at scene officers must be ready to make entry into a school, mall or other public place and neutralize a shooter to prevent further lost of life without waiting for the conventional tactical resources, i.e. the 3-C’s: Communicate, Contain, Call –SWAT, was a “New Concept.” However, I explained that this was not a “New Concept” as any barricade situation involving an armed suspect holding hostages and if the SWAT teams members were just starting to arrive at scene, and the suspect started shooting hostages, and there were only one or two SWAT element members at scene, those SWAT officers would immediately make entry and attempt to confront the suspect(s) in an effort to minimize casualties. Obviously this tactic throws the first responders in a hurry-up offense with no time to wait for vital resources to arrive at scene. But, isn’t that the reason we all signed on, “To Protect the Innocent.”
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cjustice
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Posted: Fri Nov 28th, 2008 07:31 pm | 3rd Post |
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Great post Greg - I am always wondering at our keen ability to fight the last battle - in other words, looking back at what happened and planning for that thing to happen again. The Rapid Deployment training is a significant shift from surround and hold - and, a need one in my opinion. However, as criminal and/or terrorist activity evolves I am concerned that our tactical responses are behind. As an example, columbine and many subsequent shootings were one or two suspects. There have been cases of juveniles planning in groups of four to six for such attacks. Once a group gets much beyond three, it doesn't take them long to realize there ability to ambush. They know police reponse is move toward the shooting, so that is what the officers are chasing and perhaps bypass an ambush - or, they set up there final stand in a classic hammer and anvil configuration. I hope that as we continue to train police officers in Rapid Deployment we also discuss the potential for evolution of these types of tactics, perhaps take a good look at Belsan as the worse case scenerio. Schools are tempting soft targets for all kinds of knucklheads.
Again, good thoughtful post.
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Gpantoja410brea
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 01:24 am | 4th Post |
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Having gone through the initial training when it first came to my department and two subsequent refresher/training update days, I can tell you that there are tactics in place to deal with ambush. Unfortunately, as more school shootings, such as Virginia Tech, have occurred, so too have new and unforeseen scenarios been born. For example, in the Virginia Tech shooting where the suspect chained the building doors shut which delayed the officers from entering. In response patrol divisions now have designated units equipped with bolt cutter as well as entry tools in the kit room ready to go for incidents like this. The horrible part is the inability to see these incidents coming.
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afreemanunion
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 04:44 am | 5th Post |
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I just recently went through my second "active shooter" refresher course. As the school resource officer for a small town (14,000 people), I am the key to a successful deployment, hopefully. I am looked upon by other officers because I know the ins and outs of all of the 7 schools that I deal with. I also know the majority of the students. In our community, we do not have the option of waiting for SWAT or even more officers. On a typical day, we have 3-4 officers on the street. If you include the 2 lieutenants and the chief (who handles calls regularly because he likes to), then we would have 7 maximum. We are located in a very remote area of the county and our closest backup would be about 10 minutes away, driving code 3. Even still, the closest agency only has on 2-3 officers on a shift. Our schools are also situated in a very unique way in that they all sit on the same city block. We would have to contain the entire block and lock down all of the schools. At this time we are looking into doing a citywide and even county assisted drill involving an active shooter or even a gang related shooting, which we just had recently a block away from the school. This would include school staff, law enforcement, fire, ems, sheriffs, chp and any other agency that might potentially be called out in the event of an active shooter. This will be the first time that the city has ever implemented a drill of this nature and I welcome any suggestions in how to go about doing it, since I will be in charge of coordinating it. Thanks.
Amy
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rbaker
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Posted: Sun Mar 14th, 2010 06:18 pm | 6th Post |
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School Shootings and other similiar incidents are gaining much popularity with both the School Administrators and Law Enforcement.
While "Active Shooter" serves as the action or response training to those incidents involving active gunfire, it may not be enough going forward to actually stop of slow down the number of incidents we seemed to facing in law enforcement.
I see rising cost as one of the major factors in ensuring the police force at the those school campuses are being trained effectively to deal with active shooters. I say this because many schools (colleges and universities) have competent sworn officers who know responding to active shooters is about following the sounds of gunfire, stopping the threat and then rendering aid to the victims.
But the schools with just a few sworn officers may be handicap by an untrained security staff as its patrol force and a decreasing budget to deal with active shooters at a level that one day may end this type of violence.
Also, looking at some of the most recent incidents (like in Alabama), it appears that anyone can flip and go on a rampage. In that case, it was a faculty member.
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cjustice
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Posted: Fri Apr 30th, 2010 07:57 am | 7th Post |
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Active Shooter: Tri-fold Brochure for Response
In aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings, Air Force Education and Training command officials emphasize vigilance and readiness to respond to unexpected life-threatening events. They issued tri-fold brochure for training, education and response.
http://www.military-writers.com/active_shooter_aetc_response.html
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