1. © 2012 Citizen Response to a Violent Intruder Are you Prepared for when Today is not like Yesterday?... Greg Crane

2. © 2012  There is a Fire?  There is a Tornado?  There is an Active Shooter/Violent Intruder? Who and/or What is responsible for developing the information that is taught?

3. © 2012 Flee – people get themselves to safety Fight – people decide to fight when they have no other options Freeze – people see no better option than to stay right where they are ALL THREE ARE DRIVEN BY THE HUMAN DESIRE TO SURVIVE.

4. © 2012 How Have We Traditionally Responded to Danger as an organization? SEVERE WEATHER Stay inside, Shelter in place STRUCTURAL FAILURE Get out, Evacuate FIRE Get out, Evacuate VIOLENT INTRUDER Stay inside, Lockdown, Hide

5. © 2012 Gather together “shelter in place” Lock the doors Turn out the lights Be quiet

6. © 2012  25 years of Mass Shooting events have yielded a national average for the response time of Law Enforcement to an Active Killer scene.  How long: 5-6 Minutes

7. © 2012 Injure or kill as many people as possible Not concerned with concealing the crime Well planned event

8. © 2012 1. High Profile, Much Publicity for Cause Does not diminish chance of notoriety 2. Many Targets Does not diminish number of potential targets 3. Low to No Resistance by Targets Locked doors are high level of resistance? = Low Chance of Plan Failure

9. © 2012  For the Police/Admin…  Command  One word can initiate procedure  Control  Know where everyone is located  Convenience  Easily administered and followed  For the Shooter/Terrorist…  Command  Mere exhibition of intent forces command change  Control  Procedure requires everyone to remain  Convenience  Minimal action achieves most difficult objective (containment of large, complicated structures) Keep you in for SAFETY. Keep you in to KILL YOU.

10. © 2012  Police Intervention  Suicide  Weapon Malfunction  Civilian Intervention

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12. Columbine Library 1999 Virginia Tech 2007 Number of Bad Guys 21 Minutes of Shooting 8.58 Numbers Present56Approx. 100 Age of VictimsMinorsAdults Casualty PercentageAbout 50% Number Wounded1217 Number Killed1030

13. © 2012  In 11 minutes –  154 rounds fired by the “bad guy”  Two classrooms entered  20 students killed (ages 6-7 years old)  7 Staff members killed  “Bad-Guy” takes own life when hearing police entering

14. © 2012  Threats on airlines  Stranger danger  Rape Response

15. © 2012 Common Sense, Just not Common Knowledge Alert Lockdown Inform Counter Evacuate ALiCE is NOT a linear, progressive response.

16. © 2012  Information is the key to good decisions  Information should flow in all directions  Provide as much initial intel as possible to as many people as possible  Use any and all available means: Texts, PA, Digital Signage, Web, Twitter, Facebook, BELS, etc.  May be your sensory inputs

17. © 2012 Change This To This ALERT needs to be of benefit to all… Provide info, don’t issue commands.

18. © 2012  Excellent starting point  When should doors be locked?  Before, During, or After?  Locked doors provide a time barrier. Locks can, and have been defeated. Locked doors provide a time barrier. Locks can, and have been defeated.  BARRICADE The idea is to create a stronghold that nobody can breach… BE A HARDER TARGET!.  Once Lockdown is in effect no one should be allowed into a secure room under any circumstances. Only open your locked door for uniformed police personnel.

19. © 2012 Which is a more effective barricade for a door opening out?

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21.  As real-time information as possible will be provided by all means possible.  Use this information to make single or collective decisions as to the best option for survival.  Be flexible because the situation will be dynamic and fluid

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23.  Only 2% of Violent Intruder events have been by more than one person.  If he is inside, you get outside.  Cannot use car to evacuate  Reunification points established

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25. When faced with Danger, You Must DO Something. "In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” Theodore Roosevelt