School Active Shooter Awareness Seminar

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School Active Shooter Awareness Seminar
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School Active Shooter Awareness Seminar

• Agenda
• Welcome, Introductions, Purpose
• Characteristics of an Active Shooter Incident
• Facilitated Panel Discussion
• Recap, Key Points

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• Welcome
• Introductions

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Administrative

• Cell phones and pagers
• Restrooms
• Safety and evacuation routes

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Exercise Guidelines

• This is an open, low-stress, no-fault
  environment. Varying viewpoints, even
  disagreements, are expected
• Consider different approaches and suggest
  improvements
• Base your responses on the current capabilities
  of your agency
• Focus on problem-solving and identifying issues

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Purpose

• To help prepare your organization for a School
  Active Shooter Incident on school campuses
• Familiarize participants with local resources
  and create an understanding of how responding
  organizations will coordinate

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Characteristics of an Active Shooter Incident

• Deliberate, planned attacks
• Intent to commit mass murder
• Historically Male
• Typically carried out alone
• Primarily used handguns

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Characteristics of an Active Shooter Incident

• Motives
• 24 motivated by desire for attention or
  recognition
• 27 motivated by suicide or desperation
• 34 motivated by attempt to solve a problem
• 54 had multiple motives
• 61 motivated by desire for revenge
• 75 felt bullied/persecuted/threatened by others

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Characteristics of an Active Shooter Incident

• Statistics
• 27 of attackers exhibited interest in violent
  movies
• 37 of attackers exhibited interest in violence
  in their own writings, poems, essays, and journal
  entries
• 59 of attacks occurred during the school day
• 63 of attackers had a known history of weapons
  use
• 68 acquired the weapon used from their own home
  or that of a relative

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Characteristics of an Active Shooter Incident

• Statistics
• 93 of attackers engaged in some behavior prior
  to the attack that caused others to be concerned
• 93 of attackers planned out the attack in
  advance
• 95 of attackers were current students

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Characteristics of an Active Shooter Incident

• Many offenders engaged in repetitive viewing of
  violent media
• Often fascinated with previous school shootings
• Repeat viewing of movies depicting school
  shootings
• Zero Day and Elephant
• Incident indicators are typically posted online
  in videos, blogs, and social networking activities

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Characteristics of an Active Shooter Incident

• Typically thought out and planned in advance
• Very few of the attackers directed threats to
  their targets beforehand
• The most common goal was retribution
• Prior to most school shootings, other students
  knew the shooting was going to occur and failed
  to notify an adult

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Facilitated Questions

• What preventive steps can a school take to
  enhance campus safety and response?
• What plans are required that relate to this
  issue?
• How does your plan relate to the other agencies?

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Facilitated Questions

• What are your Organizations priorities during an
  active shooter incident?

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Facilitated Questions

• Who is in charge?
• During the incident
• After the incident
• Is the Incident Command System (ICS) utilized?

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Key Points

• What can you take to your organization from
  today's discussion that will help you be better
  prepared for an Active Shooter Incident?
• Review Plans, Policies and Facilities
• Practice / Drill
• Develop Incident Management Protocols
• Building Relationships
• Response to telegraphing behavior
• Others

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• Questions?

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Contact Information

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Thank You