Caught in an attack at a school or other public place, people should flee, hide or fight back. Responding actively is a safer strategy than remaining quiet and waiting for help, according to recommendations from the Hunterdon County Prosecutor s office.
The recommendation is not a change for the prosecutor's office, although other law enforcement officials . Law enforcement strategies for responding to mass shootings have been evolving during the decades since an incident at Columbine High School in 1999 in which a teacher and 12 students were shot by fellow students.
Mass attacks, such as the Dec. 14 shooting of 20 students and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., happen quickly and end quickly. Most such shootings end within five minutes, Detective Sergeant Kevin Burd of the Prosecutor s Office said.
Burd oversees the Prosecutor s Office school safety efforts throughout the county, coordinating training and drills at schools to familiarize police with school environments and school personnel with law enforcement expectations and procedures.
He tells teachers that doing something to delay the shooter creates a "time-barrier and can save lives because most victims are shot before law enforcement is on the scene.
Doing nothing but waiting for help favors a gunman looking for victims, Kearns said. He said that the Department of Homeland Security also advises people to run, hide or fight.
Burd,foceng.com/gucci, who serves as lead liaison from the Prosecutor s Office to the schools has been spreading the message to school personnel around the county. He met with middle school staff in Raritan and Lebanon Township earlier this month and led a tabletop exercise on March 28 for about 40 county teachers and school officials.
Teachers are the front line of defense during school shootings, Burd said, and should do what their consciences and the environment allows.
For example, Woodglen School in Lebanon Township is within walking distance of the Township Police Department,pilewu.com/coach, he said. If a shooter was known to be in the school, Burd said, it might make sense for a Woodglen teacher to have students jump out a first floor classroom window and run to police headquarters.
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In 2010, a teacher tackled a man who had shot two students at Deer Creek Elementary School in Colorado, three miles from Columbine. The teacher,Cheap Toms shoes, along with a bus driver and another man, held the gunman on the ground until police arrived.
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Attacking an active shooter is a personal decision, Burd said, but knowing the limitations and opportunities presented by the environment will help adults make good choices for themselves and others.
In 147 recent incidents in which two or more people were shot to death, 50% of the shooters killed themselves or were killed by police, he said,Chanel Online.
Mass shootings are not confined to schools and neither is the Prosecutor s Office efforts to prepare the public, Burd said. At the end of 2012, Kearns held a training session for 160 people from the Hunterdon-Warren-Somerset vicinage of the Superior Court on how to respond to a shooting crisis in the courthouse.
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