re: Had a conversation with a buddy who trains LEO for crisis/active shooter situations

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A few things that he stated:

- Officers are always trained to go into buildings during an active shooter situation, but this wasn't always the case. Columbine changed the training. Before officers were trained to wait for backup and a lot of old school cops still have this mentality ingrained in them.

- Officers are trained to not help victims during an active shooter situation. In fact, he said he would often tell his crisis actors to grab the officers legs during training to see if they would kick the victims off of them

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That's the standard these days. Exactly how I was trained and then what we cover during re-training exercises.

The only reason to stop at a victim or someone running out of the building is to briefly get a description of the suspect(s). Otherwise, you continue on to the gunfire until the threat is neutralized.

If you arrive first by yourself, you go ahead and enter short of knowing an additional officer is 30 seconds out. Two guns are obviously better than one but you don't wait too long for additional officers. Ideally, you go in as 4 man teams but that's usually not feasible.