'Active shooter' tactics face scrutiny after LAPD shooting
Police are trained to kill or arrest any shooters before taking other actions, including helping victims. But that approach can have serious drawbacks.
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Police are trained to kill or arrest any shooters before taking other actions, including helping victims. But that approach can have serious drawbacks.
An officer’s bullet killed Valentina Orellana-Peralta, a 14-year-old trying on clothes in a dressing room nearby.
Not only did Santa Monica police lose control of public order during a chaotic day of looting last May, according to new information that has surfaced since Los Angeles published a detailed expose of the debacle, the oceanside city has made a considerable mess of the aftermath, too. Documents obtained via public records requests and new interviews reveal that Santa Monica hired two seasoned veterans of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, now working as private consultants, to conduct a postmortem and recommend corrective action within weeks of the police department ceding control ...
Who decides when there are helicopters? Experts weigh in on National Guard monitoring protests April Glaser and Cyrus Farivar © Provided by NBC News It was not lost on many Americans — including President-elect Joe Biden — that after a violent mob of President Donald Trump's supporters broke into the Capitol in Washington, D.C., the delayed use of National Guard troops was far different than it was during the Black Lives Matter protests last year. In late May, governors called on 43,000 troops nationwide. The nation hasn’t deployed National Guard troops at a comparable...