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The record behind Chris Grollnek Senate testimony begins in 2002, in the Hart Senate Office Building, and it starts a long way from active shooter prevention. Why the briefing happened at all That photograph was taken at Ground Zero on 24 June 2002. Nine months after September 11, the site was still being cleared. Cranes, [...]

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The prevention architecture described here is deployed, not theoretical. Every element below is in service somewhere in the United States today, and the organization that builds it documents what it does. What the standard rests on Chris Grollnek created the P.R.O. Model™ (Prevention. Response. Options.). The U.S. Department of Justice then selected it as “A” [...]

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Active shooter drills teach people what to do when the plan fits. Almost nothing about a real event fits the plan. Drills are not useless. They build familiarity, and familiarity lowers panic. But a drill rehearses one scenario, in daylight, with warning, while everyone is where they are supposed to be. That is not the [...]

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Attackers do not snap. They decide, and then they prepare. Everything in that preparation leaves behavioral warning signs, and those signs are observable, which is the entire reason prevention is possible at all. The single most common thing I hear after an incident is that it came out of nowhere. It almost never does. What [...]

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Active shooter response time is the number everyone asks about. It is also the number you have the least control over, and planning around it is how organizations end up with a plan that only works if someone else is fast. I am a Former U.S. Marine and retired police detective corporal, and I have [...]

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