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...Canada and Larry Johnson can more than keep up with Glen Rice and will even be able to exploit his size advantage on offense. Even though the Big Fella, Patrick Ewing, is as immobile as he has ever been, a double-team on Shaq using defensive SWAT-team-specialist Marcus Camby will neutralize O'Neil as much as any team in the league can hope...
...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...
Would any of this have helped at Columbine, where patrolmen waited outside the school for later-arriving SWAT teams rather than barging inside to confront the gunmen? Colorado Governor Bill Owens told TIME that he thinks those slow and deliberate tactics were probably inappropriate and will be assessed by his Columbine Review Commission. But most departments aren't waiting for more studies--rapid deployment is the order...
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...