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Special Units

Okla. Student Arrested for Plotting School Attack

Police arrested Sammie Eaglebear Chavez, 18, on Friday for allegedly planning to carry out a shooting and bombing attack at his high school. The arrest occurred only a few hours before the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Connecticut.

December 16, 2012

Patrol

Texas Deputy Stops Theater Shooter

A Bexar County (Texas) Sheriff's deputy shot and wounded a gunman at a movie theater late Sunday after two people were wounded by the shooter.

December 15, 2012

Patrol

27 Killed in Connecticut School Shooting

A gunman killed his mother, then drove to her Connecticut elementary school Friday and fatally shot 26 people, including 20 children. The gunman, identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, also killed himself.

December 13, 2012

Patrol

Conn. Gunman Killed Mother Before Deadly Rampage

Authorities have identified Adam Lanza as the 20-year-old gunman who fatally shot 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday morning, after killing his mother.

December 13, 2012

Patrol

Early Moments of Conn. Shooting Heard In Dispatch Audio

Police and fire units responding to Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday detained a juvenile suspect, located the shooter's weapons, and began setting up an incident command center, dispatch audio reveals.

December 13, 2012

Patrol

8 Ways To Make Your Campus Safer

After the dust settles on Friday's Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the campus protection community should once again be prepared to review our K-12 active shooter response emergency plans.

December 13, 2012

Training

Honoring the Sandy Hook Shooting Responders

In the aftermath of this tragedy, let's all take the opportunity to commit ourselves to being the best trained officers we can. We should train for these scenarios like they really could happen on our watch.

December 13, 2012

Patrol

Breakup May Have Led To Ore. Mall Shooting

A friend of Jacob Roberts said a recent breakup may have caused him to open fire in an Oregon shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding a third.

December 12, 2012

SWAT

Can You Multi-Task During an Active Shooter Event?

Basically, human multi-tasking is a myth. Dr. Edward Hallowell wrote that multi-tasking is "mythical activity in which people believe they can perform two or more tasks simultaneously as effectively as one."

December 12, 2012

Patrol

Ore. Mall Shooter Used Stolen Rifle

The 22-year-old shooter who killed two people in an Oregon shopping mall Tuesday evening didn't know his victims, authorities announced Wednesday. The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office identified the shooter as Jacob Tyler Roberts.

December 11, 2012

Patrol

Ore. Holiday Mall Shooter Kills 2, Turns Gun On Self

A gunman who opened fire inside a Portland-area shopping mall killed two people and wounded a third, before turning the gun on himself on Tuesday afternoon.

December 10, 2012

SWAT

Mumbai: What Law Enforcement Learned

The Mumbai terror attacks still hold potent lessons for police responders four years after they raised the ante on counter-terrorism response and active-shooter training.

November 26, 2012