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Citizen Response to a Violent Intruder
Are you Prepared for when Today is not like Yesterday?...
Greg Crane
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Citizen preparation for danger is nothing new. Where do we first learn what to do
when… There is a Fire?
There is a Tornado?
There is an Active Shooter/Violent Intruder?
Who and/or What is responsible for developing the information that is taught?
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Natural Instinct
Flee – people get themselves to safety
Fight – people decide to fight when they have no other options
Freeze – people see no better option than to stay right where they are
ALL THREE ARE DRIVEN BY THE HUMAN DESIRE TO SURVIVE.
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How Have We Traditionally Responded to Danger as an organization?
SEVERE WEATHER
Stay inside, Shelter in
place
STRUCTURAL FAILURE
Get out,Evacuate
FIRE
Get out,Evacuate
VIOLENT INTRUDER
Stay inside,Lockdown,
Hide
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What is a LOCKDOWN?
Gather together “shelter in place”Lock the doorsTurn out the lightsBe quiet
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Looking at some Facts about Violent Intruders
25 years of Mass Shooting events have yielded a national average for the response time of Law Enforcement to an Active Killer scene.
How long:
5-6Minutes
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Primary Goals of an Active Killer
Injure or kill as many people as possible
Not concerned with concealing the crime
Well planned event
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#1: How does “LOCKDOWN” interfere with the shooter’s or terrorists’ objectives/goals, and affect the skill level needed to achieve them?
1. High Profile, Much Publicity for CauseDoes not diminish chance of notoriety
2. Many TargetsDoes not diminish number of potential targets
3. Low to No Resistance by TargetsLocked doors are high level of resistance?
= Low Chance of Plan Failure
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#2: What are the Benefits of Lockdown?
For the Police/Admin…
Command One word can initiate
procedure Control
Know where everyone is located
Convenience Easily administered and
followed
For the Shooter/Terrorist…
Command Mere exhibition of intent forces
command change
Control Procedure requires everyone to
remain Convenience
Minimal action achieves most difficult objective (containment of large, complicated structures)
Keep you in for SAFETY. Keep you in to KILL YOU.
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#3:LOCKDOWN bases survival on the inability of the bad guys to reach the
innocent before police contact. But how will it really end?
Police Intervention Suicide Weapon Malfunction Civilian Intervention
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What did 8 years of LOCKDOWN preparation yield?
Columbine Library 1999
Virginia Tech2007
Number of Bad Guys
2 1
Minutes of Shooting
8.5 8
Numbers Present 56 Approx. 100Age of Victims Minors Adults
Casualty Percentage About 50% About 50%Number Wounded 12 17
Number Killed 10 30
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Lockdown Lessons Continued-Sandy Hook
In 11 minutes – 154 rounds fired by the “bad guy” Two classrooms entered 20 students killed (ages 6-7 years old) 7 Staff members killed “Bad-Guy” takes own life when hearing police
entering
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Change in culture in dealing with situations
Threats on airlines
Stranger danger
Rape Response
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A.L.i.C.ECommon Sense, Just not Common Knowledge
AlertLockdown
InformCounterEvacuate
ALiCE is NOT a linear, progressive response.
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ALERT Information is the key to good decisions
Information should flow in all directions Provide as much initial intel as possible to as many
people as possible Use any and all available means: Texts, PA, Digital
Signage, Web, Twitter, Facebook, BELS, etc.
May be your sensory inputs
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Change This
To This
ALERT needs to be of benefit to all…Provide info, don’t issue commands.
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Lockdown Excellent starting point When should doors be locked?
Before, During, or After? Locked doors provide a time barrier. Locks can, a
nd have been defeated.
BARRICADE The idea is to create a stronghold that nobody can breach… BE A HARDER TARGET!
Once Lockdown is in effect no one should be allowed into a secure room under any circumstances. Only open your locked door for uniformed police personnel.
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Which is a more effective barricade for a door opening out?
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Heavy Objects make good Obstacles
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Inform As real-time information as possible will be
provided by all means possible.
Use this information to make single or collective decisions as to the best option for survival.
Be flexible because the situation will be dynamic and fluid
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Play-by-Play Announcer
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Evacuate Only 2% of Violent Intruder events have been by
more than one person.
If he is inside, you get outside.
Cannot use car to evacuate
Reunification points established
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Where do they go? How do they go?
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Response Options
When faced with Danger, You Must DO Something.
"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” Theodore Roosevelt