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Active Shooter: Recommendations and Analysis for Risk Mitigation

Publication Date: 2012
File: Active_Shooter_Recommendations_and_Analysis.pdf
Abstract:
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) defines an active shooter as an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area. In its definition, DHS notes that, in most cases, active shooters use firearms(s) and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has limited this definition to… (read more)
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active shooter, data and research, law enforcement, risk assessment and management, strategies
Author(s):
New York City Police Department (NYPD)