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They discuss ad having a active plan in place to deal with a active shooter. This is about 30 minutes. Can i get everybody to have a seat, please, and well get started. One of the unfortunate realities of life today is that we have to worry about an active shooter and judge henry hudson from the Eastern District of virginia prepared a program for you this morning to talk about an active shooter what you should do if you were to unfortunately find yourself in such a situation. I think you will find it of great practical value. I will turn it over to judge hudson. Thank you, chief. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, our presentation today is about a very unpleasant topic but, as unpleasant as it may be your life may depend upon it. The theme of our presentation today is that when youre confronted with an active shooter your objective is going to be survival. So some of the things were talking about you should do may be unpleasant but your life could depend upon it. In the world we live in today, particularly with level of violence there is probably no security issue that is more important, not only to you, but your staff, and your family, than developing and periodically, practicing an active shooter strategy. Courthouses, law office, even schools and churches today are high visibility, symbolic targets. There are a lot of people think simply because they havent received any threats or they havent done anything controversial, that they dont have to worry, well, that kind of mind set can lead to major problems because, active shooters, sometimes, pick people an pick institutions strictly for the symbolism and the message it gives. So it is not related to any type of threat. So you shouldnt be deluded by that. What is active shooter . We define as an active shooter, unstable or idealogicallymotivated individual and sometimes a disgruntled employee who indiscrimenantly, randomly, shoots people with the intent to kill them and kill themselves. They have a message they want to convey by death and destruction. Once an active shooter is able to penetrate the outer perimeter of your building, or your office, there is no warning whatsoever. Active shooters ordinarily dont have any signs or symptoms that allow you to prepare. So if you dont have an Emergency Response plan in place, chaos is going to ensue. We have found, and whenky i dont see ensues chaos ensues, your employees and your staff will be randomly picked off by the active shooter. Now that we have found that the chance of survival and the chance of your staff having an orderly response is directly dependent upon your initiative and your leadership in putting together an active shooter response. Let me give you a graphic example of how important an active shooter plan can be. On august the 5th of 1993 at about 9 00 in the morning an individual by the name of Jack Gary Mcknight stepped off of the elevator on the fourth floor of the courthouse in topeka, kansas. He was coming in that day to be sentenced for a largescale marijuana cultivation operation that he and his wife operated. Now as he walked out of the elevator and approached the cso, gene had no idea half an hour earlier and debt it nate ad truck bomb outside sheriffs office, and blew out every window and injured number of people by flying shards of glass. He walked to up the mag to tomter, pull out at 40 caliber, shot and killed gene gold berry, shot and killed a deputy clerk of the court, talking about Kansas City Chiefs football, pushed his way through the magnetometer and began walking down the howl way. As he did he indiscrimenantly threw pipe bombs along the hallway. They exploded. The sound was deafening to everybody in the building. He then walked into the clerks office, opened the door, jumped overthecounter and for the next several hours, mcknight began firing shots, about 50 to 75 rounds, detonated 12 pipe bombs. 13th pipe bomb went off in his hand and killed him. It took 100 Police Officers three hours to secure the building totally before the chaos began to subside. I got there the next morning in my capacity as director of the u. S. Marshals service and me and the marshall, even a couple of reporters tailing me. We went up and talked to the clerk first because frankly i wanted to let him know how sorry i was for all the people that were injured during that disaster. Looked like a war zone. Papers were blown everywhere. Walls were blown out. He looked at me, henry, i didnt have one person have a scratch on him. We have a plan here. We have practiced it every year. Everybody has a designated location of where they conceal themselves or where they go to, barricade themselves, to make sure that the active shooter had no contact with them and he did not. It was nothing short of a miracle. The, judicial conference of the United States, Judicial Security Committee recommends that every federal courthouse in america have an annual active shooter drill, and i commend it to you. I have spoken to a lot of the judges out here who tell me they already have the plan in place but it is very, very important that you do so. And inspector chris parks from the Marshals Service in a minute will walk you through how you can develop a active shooter plan. When you put together your active shooter plan there is one other fast set to it to keep in mind. That is making sure your staff have the resources in case a disaster occurs around in addition to learning to shelter, learning to put those wedges in the door, you also need to make sure you have someone in your courthouse who knows how to operate a defibrillator, to be sure if someone has a heart attack, unfortunately it happens when these things occur, youre able to stablize them until rescue arrives. People tell me, henry, the defibrillator has the instructions written right on it, well, it may, but the average person who is not trained to use that will be reluctant to use that defibrillator, every Second Counts when a person has cardiac arrest. Secondly make sure you have people trained in cpr. Thirdly you want people trained in basic and advanced first aid. And have the resources to put a turn thatket tourniquet to make sure they dont bleed to death before Emergency Responders arrive. You have to have these people distributed across your courthouse so Everybody Knows how to contact them in event of a emergency. Many people say, i dont want to think about one of these situations. You have to simply do it. Let me give you another bit of personal device, each person here in varying degrees exercises some leadership role either in their office or in their courthouse or whatever institution theyre involved in. And your staff looks to you for leadership in putting together a response strategy. I know many of you here have served in the military or served in Law Enforcement positions where unfortunately people have been severely injured or killed in the line of duty. I had four when i was director of the Marshals Service. Believe me i still have scars from it. And when Something Like that occurs there is a great deal of sympathy and a lot of tears and a lot of hugging but the question that is going to arise, is a few weeks later the Family Members are going to say, what could you have done to save my husband or my wife . What steps could you have taken . Dont ever want to put yourself in that position. Make sure that you can rest in peace that if a crisis occurs, you have taken every step possible to try to make it as safe as you can for your staff, and not only that, for your family. The active shooter strategy is not only for your courthouse, it is for your home as well. I strongly encourage you to adopt it, practice it regularly. Remember, your life may depend upon it. Now i want to turn the podium over to my good friend chris parks. He and i give the lectures all the time. He does a darn good job. At the end of his presentation we will be glad to entertain any questions you have. Spin spector parks . Here he is. Thank you. Judge. Good morning, everyone, as he said, judge hudson and i have been working together quite a while giving these presentation. It was 23 years ago almost this month i walked across the stage at federal Law Enforcement training center, received my redentials at then director judge hudson. If we could have the presentation brought up. Active shooter. Initially when we were thinking about this program, it was going to be directed mostly toward judges and Staff Members but since so many people at the conference were people that work outside of the courthouse we decided he want to make it more broad and more generic and give the information to folks who can use it, not only at the office but at home as well. If you pick up the newspaper, turn on the tv, search the internet, chances are youre going to be hit with headlines, talking about active shooter or somebody who has killed a lot of people. As you can see many killed on the display today. A judge was shot outside of her home in texas. What will be able to do in order to protect ourselves . As the judge said, active person who is actively engaged in trying to kill people with a firearm, usually in a confined area. The duration of the active Shooter Event averages 12 1 2 minutes. Average Response Time of Law Enforcement, 18 minutes. A great study was done by the fbi and a lot of the statistics that i have for this presentation was taken from their study that was covered an area from 2000, to 2013. The active Shooter Program over the years has developed and changed quite a bit. It used to be the that Law Enforcement would get to the scene. Surround to contain the environment and then send in swat to try to eliminate the threat. They found that after Virginia Tech shooting, that caused much greater time for the shooter to continue his killing. So now the protocol is to get in as quick as you can, get in as fast as you can to the attacker to try to neutralize the threat. Between 2000 and 2013 there were 160 active Shooter Events. Average of 11. 4 incident per year. In first six years it was 6. 4 years and moved up swiftly to 16. 4 in last seven years of the period. 60 of the events ended before police arrived, either person leaving or person killing themselves or usually, usually some of both. 486 people killed. 557 wounded in shootings. Who are the shooters . Used to be the mass murderer was typically a male. 158 of these instances single shooter, one person going out doing all the shooting. In nine of the incidents they start off by shooting a Family Member or Family Members before taking it public, going to their location to do more killing. Six of the shooters were females. 64 of them committed suicide. At least five of the shooters remained at large when the study was concluded. Now locations. Where do these shootings happen . If we listen to the news, focus on certain events, we think, mostly in this area or this area. Statistic lip the highest incident rate of shootings occur in commerce or commercial space. Mostly in spaces that are open to the public. Both have pedestrian walkin. Others are commercial space that dont have that or factories and warehouses things such as that six of them occurred in malls. Example of that is the shooting in the theater in colorado. The person went into the premier showing at midnight after batman movie and wound up shooting quite a few people. Killed 12 and wounded 58 others. A mall shooting, omaha, nebraska, single shooter, injuring nine, killing six. Example of a commercial business not open to the general public was a distributor in connecticut where disgruntled employee or employee being disciplined, was going to be let go, went back and killed all the people that were there at the warehouse that day. Educational institutions. At first i thought when i was looking at the material the incident rate in the higher learning, the colleges was much greater because we heard so much about Virginia Tech and other shootings but as you can see from the example here, there is twice as many occurred in the prek through 12. Example, elementary schools, sandy hook in connecticut. Single shooter, shot his mom. Went to the school. And then killed over 20 students there and then killed himself. Blacksburg, we talked about Virginia Tech. Single shooter. First went to a dorm, killed two people in a dorm. Wasnt until two hours later he werent to the Academic Building started shooting. Killed 32. Killed himself just before or just as the cops arrived. Government installslations. We have nonmilitary and military installations. Fort hood, texas, a member of the military took a gun to work and started shooting. Killed 13, injured 32 others. Whoops. Open spaces incidents. Gabrielle giffords, shooting occurred in open space, took life of one of our federal judges is example of shooting in open space. Residences. Houses of worship. With the example that was given in recently in south carolina, outside the scope of this review, shows how vulnerable churches are. As you can see the number of incident in churches is equal to that in malls. So the chances of being involved in an active Shooter Program or active shooter incident is the same whether in church or in a mall. As i said, example we have the shooting in charleston that took the life of nine people at church. Other at health care. Where will you be when the shooting starts . And what will you do when the shooting starts . Before the shooting starts we want to do a little bit of planning. We want to figure out what were going to do. Always be aware of your environment. Locate the nearest exit. If you look at this room the