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Active Shooter Exercise On VCSU Campus

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Capt. (Ret.) Frank Paskewich reviewed the remarkable response and lessons learned by the U.S. Coast Guard during Hurricane Katrina.

Shooter situation. he fired shots before he ever went inside the school. so he was more than justified to use deadly force against this particular individual to stop the threat, period. and he didn't do it, for whatever reason. you don't need permission in a situation like this. you have to act and you have to act quickly. >> this calls into question, again, the -- who was in charge, the question of who was in charge. and the report found there was a lack of effective command that likely impaired the situation. we're going to keep coming back to this, because it is important. it really leaves ...

It stuns me. the incident command statute was to do a multiagency response to a critical incident all pretty indicated on communication. you can't communicate without a radio. yell orders and commands around him? this is basic. this is policing 101, public safety 101 that incident command is predicated on communication. another failure but explains a lot. we're seeing a lot of scene confusion. people didn't know what they were doing both as agencies were responding inside and then after the shooter was shot, the aftermath, the recovery, the ems, all of that coordination again was disjointed. i...