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For example, video from the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, showed officers waiting in the halls as the active shooter was making his way through the building and harming young students. [31] The video footage that revealed this to the public sparked outrage amongst the community as people demanded answers as to why law enforcement would ...
Apalachee High School is a public high school located in Barrow County, Georgia, about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Atlanta. It is part of the Barrow County School District and has about 1,900 students. [8] All Georgia schools are legally required to complete at least one active shooter drill by October 1, each academic year. [9]
Since then, agencies across the United States have based their active-shooter responses on the assumption that the shooter is on the move and in the same two-dimensional environment as the responding officers; the response practices, training, and resource requirements do not address a three-dimensional threat in a semi-fixed position.
Miami-Dade Schools Police Department officers arrive on the scene during a large-scale active shooter drill at Miami Central Senior High in Miami, Florida on Thursday, July 18, 2024.
According to a new study released Thursday by the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab in partnership with Michael Bloomberg's gun control group Everytown for Gun ...
A 2020 study from Everytown for Gun Safety and Georgia Tech cited "alarming impacts of active shooter drills on the mental health of the students, teachers and parents who experience them."
Oxford High School used the active shooter drill known as ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate), which uses proactive strategies to evade a gunman, such as using noise as a distraction and creating distance.
According to the DOJ, the Uvalde school district’s active shooter policy “was one of the few school district policies in Texas deemed viable” and covered crucial elements, including ...