There have been several mass stabbings that have high casualty counts, for instance in Belgium ( Dendermonde nursery attack 1 adult and 2 infants dead), Canada ( 2014 Calgary stabbing 5 adults dead), China ( 2008 Beijing Drum Tower stabbings 1 adult dead), Japan ( Osaka School Massacre and Sagamihara stabbings 8 children and 19 sleeping disabled adults dead, respectively), and Pennsylvania ( Franklin Regional High School stabbing no deaths). The terminology "active shooter" is critiqued by some academics. If police officers believe that a gunman intends to kill as many people as possible before committing suicide, they may use a tactic like immediate action rapid deployment.
Police officers responding to an armed barricaded suspect often deploy with the intention of containing the suspect within a perimeter, gaining information about the situation, attempting negotiation with the suspect, and waiting for specialist teams like SWAT. In police training manuals, the police response to an active shooter scenario is different from hostage rescue and barricaded suspect situations. "According to New York City Police Department (NYPD) statistics, 46 percent of active shooter incidents are ended by the application of force by police or security, 40 percent end in the shooter's suicide, 14 percent of the time the shooter surrenders, and in less than 1 percent of cases the violence ends with the attacker fleeing." In most instances, shooters commit suicide, are shot by police, or surrender when confrontation with responding law enforcement becomes unavoidable, and active shooter events are often over in 10 to 15 minutes. Locations are generally described as soft targets, that is, they carry limited security measures to protect members of the public. Most incidents occur at locations in which the killers find little impediment in pressing their attack.
The United States Department of Homeland Security defines an active shooter as "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area in most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims." Īctive shooter or active killer describes the perpetrator of a type of mass murder marked by rapidity, scale, randomness, and often suicide. A New York Times study reported how outcomes of active shooter attacks varied with actions of the attacker, the police (42% of total incidents), and bystanders (including a "good guy with a gun" outcome in 5.1% of total incidents).
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