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Active shooter was a phrase coined by law enforcement. As an example, the El Paso County (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Sheriff’s Office defines an active shooter as “... an armed person who has used deadly physical force on other persons and continues to do so while having unrestricted access to additional victims.” This includes snipers, but not usually bombers. Active shooters caused a paradigm-shift for law enforcement training and tactics.
Brief History of Active Shooter Incidents
- Charles Whitman, 1966, Texas, America, the Texas tower sniper
- James Oliver Huberty, 1984, CA, America, the McDonald's massacre
- Marc Lépine, 1989, Quebec, Canada, the École Polytechnique massacre
- Byran Uyesugi, 1999, Hawaii, America, the so-called Xerox Murders
- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, 1999, CO, America Columbine High massacre
- Buford O. Furrow, Jr., 1999, CA, America
- Robert Steinhäuser, 2002, Erfurt, Germany, the Erfurt School massacre
- Jeff Weise, 2005, Minnesota, America, the Red Lake High School Massacre
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1963 yearbook photo of Charles Whitman. ...
James Oliver Huberty was the perpetrator of the July 18, 1984 McDonalds massacre in San Ysidro, California, USA. Huberty was veteran of the Vietnam War and worked for 14 years as a welder in Massillon, Ohio. ...
James Oliver Huberty The McDonalds massacre, sometimes called the McMurder, was an incident of mass murder at a McDonalds restaurant in the San Ysidro section of San Diego, California, on July 18, 1984. ...
Marc Lépine (October 26, 1964 – December 6, 1989) was a Canadian mass murderer who killed 14 women in what is known as the École Polytechnique massacre. ...
The École Polytechnique massacre or Montreal massacre was a gun massacre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...
Byran Koji Uyesugi (born 1959) was a former Xerox service technician in Honolulu, Hawaii who was convicted of killing seven of his co-workers on November 2, 1999, in what has been called the Xerox murders, the worst mass murder case in the history of Hawaii. ...
Yearbook photographs of the two perpetrators. ...
Staff and students evacuate Columbine High School shortly after the shooting. ...
Buford ONeal Furrow, Jr. ...
The Erfurt massacre occurred at the Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, on April 26, 2002. ...
The Gutenberg-Gymnasium on 2002-05-05 The Erfurt spree killing occurred at the Gutenberg- Gymnasium in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, on April 26, 2002. ...
Jeff Weise as a sophomore in a 2005 class photo. ...
Aerial photograph taken during the aftermath of the school massacre. ...
Changes in Police Response The Columbine High School shooting was a seminal event in SWAT tactics and police response. As noted in an article in the Christian Science Monitor dated May 31, 2000, “Instead of being taught to wait for the SWAT team to arrive, street officers are receiving the training and weaponry to take immediate action during incidents that clearly involve suspects' use of deadly force.” May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
The article further reported that street officers were increasingly being armed with rifles, and issued heavy body armor and ballistic helmets, items traditionally associated with SWAT units. The idea is to train and equip street officers to make a rapid response to so-called active-shooter situations. In these situations, it was no longer acceptable to simply set up a perimeter and wait for SWAT.
As an example, in the policy & procedure manual of the Minneapolis, Minnesota, Police Department, it is stated, “MPD personnel shall remain cognizant of the fact that in many active shooter incidents, innocent lives are lost within the first few minutes of the incident. In some situations, this dictates the need to rapidly assess the situation and act quickly in order to save lives.”
The Christian Science Monitor noted this approach is not without controversy. Apparently, many agencies have not implemented the training due to the cost of training, and equipping individual officers with new weapons and amor. The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is an international newspaper published daily, Monday through Friday. ...
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