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They had no idea what he was wearing or what he was shooting because they were hiding outside.. But protecting those unarmed students was their duty which they failed miserably. SOP with an active shooter at a school is to engage immediately, even if to disrupt his plans or lend aid to the injured.
To engage was their duty. Instead they hid behind concrete and their cars out in the parking lot. Disgraceful as is your defense of their actions.
Instead they hid behind concrete and their cars out in the parking lot. Disgraceful as is your defense of their actions inaction.
From the police forum
http://www.policeforum.org/assets/docs/Critical_Issues_Series/the%20police%20response%20to%20active%20shooter%20incidents%202014.pdf
The shooter may be stopped by
arrest, by containment, or by use of deadly force.
And some policies note that when an active
shooter incident occurs at a school, a School
Resource Officer (SRO) may be the first officer at
the scene who must make a decision about whether
to respond alone.
Other departments require that officers wait
until a certain number of officers have arrived.
Those officers are instructed to form a “contact
team” that responds as a unit with the mission of
stopping the shooter and preventing his escape.
Some departments’ policies recommend a con-
tact team of a certain size—often four officers—but
also specify that fewer officers may respond if it is
apparent that a full contact team cannot be assem-
bled quickly. Some of these agencies caution that
a smaller team should be deployed only as a last
resort.
Some policies provide that only one contact
team should be deployed, and that officers who
arrive at the scene later may join that contact team.
Other departments call for multiple contact teams
to be deployed quickly as additional officers arrive
at the scene. If multiple teams are deployed, their
movements and actions should be tracked and coor
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dinated by a designated commander, to ensure that
they don’t unknowingly cross paths with each other
or spend time on redundant searches, for example.
Some departments do not offer specific guid-
ance on how many officers should be at the scene
before at least one officer moves to stop the shooter,
saying only that those decisions must be made on
a case-by-case basis, depending on circumstances.