Alright, back to the “law enforcement” portion of Defense Tech.
My bro David Woroner from Survival Consultants International is laid up in the hospital for some pretty serious stuff today, but he managed to text over this story about a shooting on the University of Delaware campus that shut down classes.
This assault obviously raises the alarming specter of the Va. Tech shootings and prompts me to post the second part of Daves recommended solution to the recent outbreak of campus shootings.
I invite you to slice and dice his analysis, but I also ask you to keep Dave in your thoughts as he undergoes some pretty serious surgery in the coming days…
Part II
Follow Up: In the Aftermath of the release of the of Gov. Timothy Kaines panel report, while not scathing, did say the alert should have been issued, and classes should have been closed.
Too often we see what can happen, and how fast The term I use: Everything can change in a Second still applies. We all know thats what it comes down to for businesses (private or public) and educational facilities. It is about the bottom line, cash and PR. The Liability vs. Cost of this Professional Security Presence can be easily offset.
If Virginia Tech had armed professionals there, they would have engaged. There may have been casualties, but not so many. Also, from a business perspective, how much are you now gonna have to pay those 30 odd families who lost young ones in litigated settlements? I can guarantee you this: cheap is not the word I would use.
If you had the professionals onsite, in a court of law, it would be easily shown that the overseeing entity provided security for the employees, students and visitors to the best of their abilities. In my opinion, that would be the courts final say. Its all about Did you do everything you could, or at least show you tried to avert some situation such as this. Follow the above or get ready to get sued out of business. When there is blood in the water, the sharks will come.
Depending on the size of a venue, Professional, Armed Security is a must.
Overview:
These Professionals should not be walking around in battle dress, but a specific dress delineates who the good guys are. Proper dress is very important in this scenario.
Active shooters, terrorists and other unforeseen plans will always be there from now on, get used to it, prepare.This security presence is not intended to be the creation of a secret police, police state mentality in the venue. The idea is to always be constitutionally bound by fairness, law and contain the ability to incorporate checks and balances within itself. It must protect the protected from becoming the target of an out of control security member or members. It should also be decisive and final in case of an event. It should come from proper team selection and overall creation of the intended group, to include all three key components of the security field.
The three components are Private Security, Prior Military, Prior Law Enforcement within the scope of the American Society of Industrial Security. This will surely bring together a force that will be able to work together from different viewpoints, both learned and lived.
Finally, an off property training location is necessary to engage in learning, training and cross training in all of these learned prior experiences — to include methodologies, communication, real-time maneuvering and live-fire exercises. This must be supported by the entity employing/engaging such professionals. The operators must work out plans in real time scenarios, to discover any internal flaws and fix them. You can only do this when youre sweating, engaging, etc. The world goes to a different level when an event takes place.
Also, in the contract, it must state that administrators, owners, CEOs, etc. may not intervene and attempt to persuade or order the security group to engage or cease. There is a lockout and protection clause from the hiring entity in the case of certain events.
Communications shall consist of:
Contact w/ each other and the security base as well as a channel for switching to interweave, which would allow security and law enforcement (local, state, federal) in the case of an event to coordinate. Complete loop communications is essential.
These Professionals will quickly delineate the property and everything on it to understand points of flow, large grouping areas. Its also important to develop operational plans for multiple scenarios on all parts of the property being secured.
The event at Va. Tech. should clearly illustrate the need for an overall, all-encompassing notification and threat level all electronic device notification system. What this means is that sending out an email is not satisfactory. The administration personnel must be taught to pass to the Security Center all threatening phone calls and any type of written or verbal intelligence. The Security Center head (at the time) [and this is a 24/7 operation] should receive all data and distribute it to professionals on the property immediately. These professionals can delineate the level of threat and respond appropriately.
This does not infer that Regular Campus Police should be removed. Rather this is an add-on specialized unit, and it should have information flowing back and forth between regular campus police, the security center and, in case of an event, all know to switch to X channel for interwoven communications.
Returning to the all electronic device notification system — this system would do the following:
Install Strobe type flashing units around the property. This strobe is only to be activated if an entire property notification has been sent. This property wide strobe would let everyone on property know (even if they were not electronically connected that something was going on) to seek out someone with an electronic device to get the following threat ladder information:
(Example Only, each security unit would devise a specific set of parameters)
Green — All Clear and safe to move about freely.
Yellow — Receipt of information that there MAY be a problem, though not overly serious at this time, monitor your electronic device for any updates. (No Strobe)
Orange — A low-level threat or incident is confirmed and all should remain calm, stay where you are or seek cover, shelter, lock doors within your current placement. Notify the Security Center if you positively can identify a threat (this will set in motion a number of false positives). Be prepared to Respond/Not Respond, and perhaps some administration can be taught to help with this situation.
This would be a situation for all law enforcement, security center to switch to interwoven channel. (Slow Strobe?)
Red — Imminent or Active extremely dangerous event taking place at this time.
Do Not Move From Where You Are. (See Part 1 of SCIs Intel Brief)
Same Steps as Orange pretty much for public, but this activates Local LE, Campus Police, Security Center interwoven communications/full interweave PRE planned specific areas for all entities LE/Security to gather if appropriate, or go directly to a plan already known and sent to all on interwoven channel. (Rapid Strobe?)This information MUST over ride, and deliver to multiple sources this information. All cell phones, pagers, computers, phone systems, etc. must receive the same / or more detailed information. All devices must receive these ladder steps.
I have specifically avoided how to setup the Security Center & Cameras/Camera Placement, as there are very good reasons for keeping them not available to potential threats.
– David Woroner
So what do you all think?
First two paragraphs are factless, and the rest
is unsupported..
> If Virginia Tech had armed professionals
> there, they would have engaged.“
Uhmm, what?!?
http://www.police.vt.edu/VTPDnew/Police%20%20Virginia%20Tech.htm
Google “VA Tech Police force”. First link..
I think these qualify as armed professionals.
A coherent article, after the pain meds, please.
The armed professionals trained in active shooter scenarios are a good idea, but they are still a reactive force that comes after communication and confirmation of the threat.
Still say CCWs need to be enforced on campus. Active shooter expects no resistence from the sheeple. Anytime a sheepdog pops up, most active shooter scenarios end, or at least disrupt the active shooter’s plans. Mess up his decision cycle.
Staying in one place is suicide. Cho was able to rack up a body count because people barricaded themselves in place and prayed for deliverance. What they got was slaughtered. The kids who jumped from windows and broke legs lived to tell about it.
Schools need to practice having kids egress from every point possible of any building to avoid creating a juicy target for the killer.
The LEOs need decide if their priority is getting innocents out of the line of fire or stopping the shooter. Getting the kids out will make it harder for them to find the shooter, but it foils his plans for them to huddle together and wait to die.
A Beslan-style assault is a different beast altogether. The emo kid lashig out at life does not even touch the required planning and response to a highly-trained squad of suicidal jihadists using fire-and-maneuver to take over a school.
Maybe students have to be ready to throw books and backpacks, or fire extinguishers, or form a phalanx of desks and charge, rather than die.
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And your point is?
When I was in college, I was trained how to fight the Soviet Union. I also partied a wee bit.
If the SHTF and you don’t want to save your own skin, or somebody else’s, that’s your choice alone. I honestly hope you never have to make the choice.
As for my beliefs, well, “maybe” conveys doubt or reserve, where I come from. Like, you’re not sure something is right, or wrong.
Fair enough. Don’t really buy the armed professional in the dorm/theatre/Wal-Mart, etc. scenario, and I don’t think you can plan and budget for the rare exception, rather than the quotidian rule.
But in the face of horror, some of us hope and reach for solutions, and if our reach exceeds our grasp, well — that’s life, too.
Not only do I believe that campus personnel with CCW permits should be the norm, this should also include students!
Here, at the University of Georgia, Faculty and Staff can keep firearms in their vehicles in accordance with State and Federal law, but students may not have such weapons, whether they have a CCW or not. So while faculty and staff may feel secure in their parking place on campus, students are vulnerable.
Since when should becoming a student waive your legal rights to protect yourself?
Also, if it were common knowledge that campuses honored CCWs of faculty, staff, and students, I believe you would see less, not more potential for lethal violence.
just a nit pick, but the shooting was at Delaware State University, in Dover DE (think southern end of DE), NOT the University of Delaware, which is in Newark, DE (approximately an hour apart).
just a nit pick, but the shooting was at Delaware State University, in Dover DE (think southern end of DE), NOT the University of Delaware, which is in Newark, DE (approximately an hour apart).
The point of what i write is to only to make you think. What i find most disheartening is the “lack” of outside the box thinking? Wheres the whacked out ideas? Are we all sheep?
Im layin in my bed recovering from a pretty serious heart operation, (with Mr. Colt nearby)
Who said this? ” I ain’t going out like that!“
Your notes n wishes are very welcome and help me fight to my feet some days for those walks. It was serious, and Im seriously lucky.
Thank you all readers, i do appreciate it.
Best to all of any opinion, etc… after all, we are all on the same side in the end.
Best, David Woroner
I think the key is not so much the presence of “armed professionals” who, after all, can’t be everwhere at once, but more training directed at students, faculty members, and campus employees. The same kind of training, by the way, that I believe every citizen should receive. The CERT program should be considered a model in that regard.
I often worry that the extreme professionalization of our nation’s police and emergency services personnel, while itself commendable (and something I support), has come at the price of an American citizenry that has come to think that the solution to every crisis is to hide under the bed (or desk) and dial 911. We need to instill, in everyone, a sense of how to formulate an appropriate “OODA” response pending the arrival of professional assistance.
After all, armed professionals *were* present on campus in the form of the campus police. However well trained, they simply weren’t positioned to timely engage the threat.
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It just shows you can only prepare so much for a rare situation like this. Maybe more commercial buildings and colleges should use what most or all of the military uses for quick alerts. Check out the case studies for the Air Force Reserve at AtHoc
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