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Former SRO Arrested for Multiple Counts Over Parkland Massacre

The former Broward County, FL, deputy who was the school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during last year's deadly mass shooting has been arrested on several counts of child neglect among other charges.

(Video) Police Trainer Don Alwes on Active Shooter Response

Don Alwes discusses some of the pre-attack behaviors that might indicate an imminent attack, as well as ways in which law enforcement can improve its response when an active shooter event does occur.

Don Alwes is an adjunct instructor for Kentucky's Department of Criminal Justice Training and lead instructor for NTOA's Police Response to Active Shooter and School and Workplace Violence courses.

Florida Recordings of Mass Shootings No Longer Public Record

The bill applies to government photo, audio, and video recordings that show the deaths of three or more people, not including the perpetrator, in an incident of mass violence.

Special Report: Critical Incident Response

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In POLICE Magazine’s Special Report: Critical Incident Response, read about Working with the Media After a Critical Incident, the Evolution of Critical Incident Communications, Bomb Threats and Suspicious Packages, Preplanning Response to School Shootings, and PTSD in the Police K-9.

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Retired NYPD ESU Detective Disarmed UNC Charlotte Shooter

“I’m proud of my actions yesterday and owe it to all the great member and training that the best unit in the world taught me over the years,” Gundacker wrote in an undated post to a Facebook group for ESU officers.

Charlotte Chief Praises Slain Student for Helping Stop University Gunman

Howell was shot and killed, but his actions delayed the shooter, giving police more time to respond and fellow students a chance to escape.

Police say Riley Howell likely saved many lives when he jumped a gunman who was shooting students in an anthropology class at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Tuesday. He was one of two students killed in the shooting. (Photo: WBTV Screen Shot)

Woman Wanted for Threat Against Columbine High Found Dead

The FBI tweeted shortly after discovery of the body that there was no longer a threat to the community. FBI Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips said at an afternoon news conference that authorities believed Pais died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound but that a medical examiner would confirm if that was the case.

A Florida woman that the FBI said presented a 'credible threat' to Columbine High School was found dead Wednesday of apparent suicide. Sol Pais, 18, was reportedly obsessed with the Columbine Massacre. (Photo: Denver Channel screen shot)

IN Teachers Complain About Injuries from Airsoft Guns During Active Shooter Training

"During active shooter drill, four teachers at a time were taken into a room, told to crouch down and were shot execution style with some sort of projectiles — resulting in injuries to the extent that welts appeared, and blood was drawn," a statement from the Indiana State Teachers Association on Wednesday said.

Shooting Spurs Baltimore Schools to Reverse Decision to Disarm Officers

The board’s decision comes a month after the 10 members voted unanimously against the idea of arming school police officers. The dramatic shift could provide a needed boost to state Del. Cheryl Glenn’s proposed legislation in Annapolis. Even if the board hadn’t thrown its support behind the bill, Glenn had said she would’ve continued to push for change after the recent shooting at Frederick Douglass High School.

Student Wanted to Shoot Ex-Girlfriend, Others at School—Nobody Hurt in Incident

A student at a New Mexico high school said in a note that he wanted to shoot his ex-girlfriend and others at the Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho on Valentine's Day.

Special Report: Keeping Schools Safe

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In POLICE Magazine’s Special Report: Keeping Schools Safe, learn about building police-school relationships, how readers would make schools safer, why you have to go in, crowd control, tactical medical response, and staging a school shooting response drill.

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Procedures & Policies

Pennsylvania Parents File Suit over Proposal to Arm Teachers in Schools

The Tamaqua (PA) School District "endangered their community" when they approved a "manifestly illegal" policy to give weapons to teachers and other school employees, according to a lawsuit filed by three parents and a grandparent.

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