Problems to Solve

This is a list of issues that impair our ability to accomplish our mission:

After-analysis

LinkedIn - 9/28/2018 | Flo Rice in an Open Letter to Santa Fe Superintendent | https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teacher-flo-rice-wounded-during-mass-shooting-santa-fe-bonczyk-esq-/

Ambush Style Attacks

KVAL - 10/19/2018 -- Springfield, IL | Suspect shot at firefighters and police as flames spread through Springfield neighborhood Gunfire and an active shooter situation before the suspect apparently turned a weapon on himself , Springfield Police said. No firefighters or police were injured. So far, the only casualty appears to be the suspect, police said.

Answering the Threat in a Timely Manner

Parkland Florida School Shooting - February 14th, 2018

11 Minutes to Respond CNN -- St. Valentine's Day, it took deputies 11 minutes to enter the school, in force, to deal with the threat, even though there was a school resource officer, on scene, who heard the gunshots.

Armed Untrained Citizens Attempting to Intervene

FBI - CCW Report on Shooting Events -- GunsAmerica News/Reviews: A new report from the FBI has found that of the 50 “active shooter incidents” in 2016 and 2017, individuals with valid firearm permits successfully stopped four of them.

Arming Teachers

KXXV - TV - 10/3/2018 - Gatesville School District Decides to Arm Their Teachers | http://www.kxxv.com/story/39218212/gatesville-isd-to-consider-arming-teachers

The Hill - 10/3/2018 - Arming Teachers Wont Stop School Violence | https://thehill.com/opinion/education/409476-arming-teachers-wont-end-school-violence

Tampa Bay Times - 3/20/2019 - Stuff we all saw coming, even before it happened | http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/2019/03/20/floridas-effort-to-put-guns-in-schools-heres-whats-happened-so-far/

Armed Police / Security in Schools

News Herald - 3/20/2019 - Armed Security/Police in Pennridge local schools. | http://www.montgomerynews.com/perkasienewsherald/news/regional-chief-discusses-proposed-pennridge-school-police-officers/article_217e509e-3b00-11e9-a34c-6fe6348d5b03.html

False Alarms

WBBM 780 News Radio - 9/26/2018 - New active shooter warning system.| https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/school-has-false-alarm-new-active-shooter-warning-system

The Republic - 10/18/2018 - False alarm and a Navy ship yard, sparks investigation as to the cause. | http://www.therepublic.com/2018/10/18/us-shooting-report-virginia-the-latest/

Chicago Sun Times - 10/20/2018 - Rockford, IL | Rockford man who allegedly caused Concordia University lockdown charged

WFAE 90.7 - 11/09/2018 - Topsail High School - Hampstead, North Carolina | Faulty Water Heater Causes Active Shooter Scare at NC High School

Time Magazine - 11/28/2018 - False Alarm at Walter Reed Hospital - http://time.com/5465194/walter-reed-active-shooter-navy-mass-notifications/

WMBF - 12/14/2018 - Walter Reed Lessons Learned | http://www.wmbfnews.com/2018/12/14/steps-taken-address-walter-reed-shooting-alert-error/

WVPE - 03/16/2019 - ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Michigan State False Alarm: May have been caused by balloons | https://www.wvpe.org/post/popping-balloons-may-have-sparked-active-shooter-alert-u-m

Full Scale Exercises: Active Shooter Training

Cardinal Points Online - 9/27/2018 | Blanks used to condition students on what to listen for, when hearing gunshots | http://cardinalpointsonline.com/pennsylvania-school-using-unconventional-safety-drill/

Gearing Up Firefighters and EMS for Hot-Area Triage

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) — Davenport Fire Fighters receive gear for active shooter situations - 10/17/2018

Growing a Bad Actor: A Societal Problem

Change.org - 10/3/2018 - Holding Parents Accountable for Ignoring the Warning Signs of Homicidal Kids | https://www.change.org/p/workplace-violence-prevention-institute-parents-must-be-held-accountable-for-youthful-offenders-a8482c85-c295-43cd-af1d-b5754176c0d9/u/23357936

Government Adoption and Action

The Baker Orange - 10/7/2018 - (Editorial) Lake of understanding inhibits direction and focus. | https://thebakerorange.com/28984/showcase/vague-active-shooter-plan-so-what-do-we-do/

The Denver Post - 10/19/2018 - Large Capacity Magazine Ban challenge, Courts side with 2013 Colorado Law banning LCM's with more than 15 round capacities. | https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/18/colorado-court-of-appeals-lcm-bans/

The Mississippi Legislature - 03/16/2019 - House Bill 1283 will require schools to hold mass casualty drills | http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/history/HB/HB1283.xml

Houses of Worship Prepare for the Worse

The Daily Journal - 9/23/2018 - Planning for security threats at places of worship. | https://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/opinion/readers/2018/09/23/cumberland-county-prosecutor-jennifer-webb-mcrae-we-must-plan-security-threats-churches/1407078002/

Peripheral Incidents Causing Lockdowns

My Northwest - 10/17/2018 - Incident near a local school causes lockdown. | http://mynorthwest.com/1141137/auburn-schools-lockdown-standoff/

27 ABC - 10/16/2018 McFarland, WI - 10/9.2018 - School put on lockdown as police conduct a drug search, nearby. | https://wkow.com/news/top-stories/2018/10/09/mcfarland-school-put-on-temporary-lockdown-during-drug-search-nearby/

Freemont Tribune - 11/30/2018 - Freemont, NE - School put on lockdown after 14 yr old student brandished a BB gun pistol. | https://fremonttribune.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/year-old-charged-after-fremont-high-school-incident-showed-bb/article_bcc996ef-6438-5a51-8880-050df51c60c2.html

Evansville Courier-Tribune - 12/15/2018 - Evansville, IN - Mall goes into lockdown on a man-with-a-gun report. A felony intimidation investigation is under-way. | https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2018/12/14/potential-shooter-situation-evansvilles-eastland-mall-defused/2319124002/

Precursors to Attacks

Daily Caller -- 5/18/2018: One of the suspects in a Friday shooting that left at least 9 people dead at Santa Fe High School in Texas is Dimitrios Pagourtzis, law enforcement sources told CBS News.

Public Perception Issues

Boston Globe - 10/3/2018 - I don't want my kid's school to be like a prison. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2018/10/02/want-safe-schools-but-don-want-schools-that-feel-like-prisons/lNH8CKtmGsMuKl0dvVPGnO/story.html

Decisions in a Silo

ABC - 07/19/2019 - False alarm sparks panic in Chicago as amateurs attempt an ad-hoc Active Shooter Drill. | https://abc7chicago.com/false-alarm-sparks-panic-over-potential-active-shooter-in-chicagos-loop/5404059/

Search and Clearning

Global News, Inc. - 11/23/2018 - Suspect found in ceiling, during lockdown building search. | https://globalnews.ca/news/4694452/lac-la-biche-college-lockdown-charges-laid/

Staffing Practices

KLTV - 10/3/2018 - Director of School Safety | https://www.kltv.com/2018/10/03/former-fbi-agent-sworn-director-school-safety-bullard-isd/

SHARE Saturday, October 13, 2018 09:53AM BAYTOWN, Texas -- A Baytown, Texas DARE Officer mistakenly pulls gun on students during active shooter drill by Jessica Willey | https://abc7chicago.com/officer-mistakenly-pulls-gun-on-students-during-active-shooter-drill/4475412/

Treating the Wounded

EMS Safety - Tactical Medical Help

CBS - New York City, NY - 12/15/2018 - EMS Protection is a growing demand amoung workers. | https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/12/14/brooklyn-emt-attacked-east-flatbush-far-rockaway-queens/

Medical Trackers

Wearable vitals for evac and triage. Great idea. https://www.geek.com/tech/this-wearable-tracks-vital-information-in-mass-casualty-situations-1763265/

Manchester Bombing in England - May 23rd, 2017

2 Hours before the Wounded were Treated LONDON (AP) — Firefighters were not allowed to go to the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing for more than two hours because of confusion about whether an attacker was still on the loose, according to a report released Tuesday.

Pulse Nightclub Lessons Learned - June 12th, 2016

ProPublica | How the Orlando Fire Department’s Active Shooter Policy Fell Through the Cracks | Emails and interviews show that the agency had been working for three years to update its response to active shooter situations, but those efforts faltered by the time of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

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