Also, what is “The Proper Role of Government” for this kind of department within Government (law enforcement)?
A video has surfaced from a Broward County Sheriff’s active shooter training session where Sheriff Scott Israel instructs a room full of citizens, police officers and SWAT members to run and hide when faced with an active shooter. Israel also claimed during the training session that his officers were trained to put themselves last in an active shooter scenario, although his officers certainly put themselves first based on the events of the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. In addition to the students injured, 17 students were gunned down and killed while sheriff’s officers refused to enter the school.
But his officers did run and hide. They got that part down. As many as four officers refused to enter the school while the shooter was inside. Israel earlier this week said it wasn’t his responsibility if officers didn’t have the courage to enter the building. Perhaps some of those officers were in the room when Israel instructed people to run and hide. Israel, on the video, also stresses his department is not offensive. They are defensive, he stresses. They don’t “attack,” he said.
Watch the video at the link.
CHASER: Denton County Sheriff: We don’t wait, we engage active shooters
The Denton County Sheriff said Tuesday his deputies are expected to take immediate action and engage during an active shooter situation…“We do not stage and wait for SWAT, we do not take cover in a parking lot, and we do not wait for another agency,” Sheriff Tracy Murphree wrote. “We go in and do our duty. We go in to engage and stop the shooter and save lives.”
“If for any reason you cannot follow this directive, please inform your supervisor and we will work to get you re-assigned,” Murphree wrote.
