This is the image Huffpo ran with their article, which might lead you to believe that the active shooter might actually be a pirate.How do you respond to an active shooter? I mean really? If the shooter is active and shooting, how should you......
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Jesus M. Villahermosa, Jr., who leads a security consulting firm, says there’s not much that retailers can do to stop the next active shooter. But he noted that retailers make the mistake of doing their active training on computers. “You don’t give people a chance to ask questions,”...
A former police officer in Clinton Township for over 25 years, Marc Strauss is now a senior risk control consultant who instructed 30 West New York employees on how to respond if ever there was an active shooter on site at Town Hall. During the training, Strauss played videos o...
Although the odds of being involved in such an event are low, the sudden, catastrophic nature of these attacks requires that individuals, schools, workplaces, and public areas think in advance about how to respond. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has created this video, Surviving ...
From the recentshootings in Ohio and Texasto continuing terrorist attacks andviolent attacks from organized urban mobs, mass shooting and mob attacks do happen, and they are something that we need to be prepared to respond to. Preparing for Active Shooter Situations, and Terrorist Attacks ...
Last week, The New York Times wrote about a new simulation program, funded by the Department of Homeland Security, that aims to teach teachers how to respond to an active shooter on school grounds ...
We asked several experts how employers can best respond during and after an active shooter situation. Be Transparent Don’t wait until you have answers to start communicating. According to Patricia Graves, a senior adviser at the Society of Human Resource Management, company leadership should engage...
How Columbine forever changed the way we respond to active shooters The moment school protective officer Michael Ortega receives a call is the moment he starts planning what he's going to do next. "And the situation like this where it's an active shooter, I could be going in alone,"...
Components of an active shooter plan Now that we've convinced you that an active shooter plan is good business, let's examine the components of an active shooter plan from a business perspective. There are many factors to consider when creating a BC/DR plan for this scen...