Active Shooter Incidents

Active Shooter Incidents

Introduction

The active shooter term is defined by the Department of U.S Homeland security as one of the individual being engaged in the attempt to kill or the killing innocent people in a populated or the confined areas. In almost every case of the active shooting the killers do not engage there selves in any method or pattern in the selection of the victims. Glancing a look at the past five years there have almost been 15 shoot outs by the active shooters giving a high number of casualties.

The purpose of writing this paper is to analyze the concept of the “Active Shooter Incident”. In this new world, shooting incidents at the work place and even in the educational institutes is a disaster for the security agencies because these agencies failed in securing the lives of the people. Only in United States within a time span of ten years, there were numerous incidents especially at the educational institutes shocked the whole nation. Therefore, in this paper, the author tried to cover the different aspects of the active shooter incident like the causes that lead the incident, definition of the concept on which this incidents based on. Similarly, the author also highlighted the measures that would be beneficial during this rapid incident at work place or educational institute.

Phoenix Police Shot Out

The DHS (Department of Homeland Security) basically aims to greatly enhance the preparedness with the approach of “whole community” by making available the products, training and the resources to broaden the range of the stake holders on the highly concerned issue of the active shooting awareness. In most of the cases there was no selection of pattern selected by the active shooter, and it was also said that these are some the situations that are very much unpredictable and also get evolved very quickly.

All this information stated above is highly authentic as all of this material is collected from the websites operated by the government authorities or by the police departments. The material provided by these websites clearly agrees with the fact that some special steps are required to be taken in order to prevent the shoot outs by the active shooters at various places. The website of the DHS provides some of the important steps to be taken in such a situation without panicking. The website operated by the police authorities provides online training for ...