[Revelation 911]

"We're going in and clear the building."

Regardless of whos side your on - anyone making such a comment beforehand is courting two things:

Extra dead civilians

and

A feild day for trial lawyers representing any future dead perps or civi's as the junior Gmen gets thier butts sued

[harpseal]

The field day for dead perps attorneys is possible I suppose but as to dead civies the Colubine, Colorado precedent should pretty much mandate a far more agressive attitude on dynamic entry to such a situation once hostages are being harmed. I expect an officer to go into harms way to protect children at the minimum.

I also expect an officer to have at his/her disposal the best available tools to do the job.

Stay well - Stay safe - stay armed - Yorktown

[E.Allen]

You may be somewhat out of date on current protocols. PA state training for an active shooter now wants the first four officers on scene to have long weapons, form a fire team and go after the shooter and stop them. Leave the wounded for next responders.

This seems to be a legacy of Columbine, when policy required first officers on scene to wait for the "experts" while the cowards inside continued killing.