Podcast: Active Shooter Event & Response Evolution

Sept. 20, 2023
Retired police Lt. Frank Borelli talks the 1999 attack at Columbine High School and how it came to be known as the "Pearl Harbor" of active shooter events.

In the first episode of this sponsored six-part series, Officer.com News Editor Joe Vince and retired Lt. Frank Borelli discuss the attack at Columbine High School in 1999 and how it came to be known as the "Pearl Harbor" of active shooter events. Discussed is why this attack was perceived so differently than others before it and how basic response by officers to such events has changed since then.

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