Word: swats
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...year after a tragedy that left 15 dead--and scores of questions about why the police moved so slowly--crisis training that was once reserved for big-city SWAT teams has entered the curriculum for street cops. The Los Angeles police hope to have 5,000 patrol officers trained in rapid-deployment techniques by June. The National Tactical Officers Association, a SWAT training organization, has put more than 1,000 officers through "R.U. Ready High School" in Moyock, N.C., a $45,000 facility specifically built to simulate Columbine-style carnage. A school-hostage drill in Pinellas County, Fla., last month...
...rules on how to respond to school and office shootings--set up a perimeter and wait for SWAT--are gone. Now cops are trained that when they hear shooting, they should go in immediately, guns drawn, and stop the violence. "We had to make a change," says SWAT trainer Randy Watt. "Fifteen years ago, you didn't see people going in just for the sake of creating mayhem and planning their own demise...
Colorado resident Michael T. Wahl '03, for example, says he will never forget turning on the television to "horrific" images of SWAT teams and a student trying to crawl out of a second-story window...
...cops anticipated something large. The SWAT team is here as well as riot police. They're very, very prepared," said James L. Augusta, the shift supervisor for security at the convention center...