Active-Shooter Events
Active-Shooter Events
Article Review: Hunter Martaindale, M., Sandel, W. L., & Pete Blair, J. (2017). Active-shooter events in the workplace: Findings and policy implications. Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 11(1), 6-20.
Incidents related to active shooters and the police’s response to them have received considerable attention in most public places. The increased public attention, which requires a rapid response of the officers in active shooter events and the suspects’ engagement, has also increased worldwide recently. However, to explore the police’s role in these events, this study has explored exceptional variables and other related studies to reveal outstanding and understandable results. The respondents evaluating the vignettes show that police officers’ response to any active shooter scenario is one of the most preferred options people need to adhere to instead of accessing the buildings. In Hunter Martaindale, Sandel &Pete Blair (2017) article “Act”ve-shooter events in the workplace: Findings and policy implications,” th” authors explore the role of the police in addressing events to an active shooter. In this review, the authors also maintained that contemporary issues that reveal a substantial amount of police and public attention are associated with the “active shooter” incidents with the responses that can be obtained from the police. Further exploration of the article holds that active shooters are events that can easily cause a massive impact on people, and thorough management approaches are needed to address and bring them to a substantial hold. In defining active shooter and its management efforts, the authors this article hold that it is associated with the use of deadly firearms that if no proper attention and response is given may cause severe impacts on people. Through other studies, evidence from the article indicates that activities of police officers like the use of force to arrest are one of the dangerous ways of managing such incidences.
Additionally, Martaindale, Sandel & Pete Blair (2017) explored the role of policies in police safety, which is considered a substantial portion of the police’s role in protecting them from danger. Their arguments show that regardless of the deep connection between police officers’ safety and the contemporary issues related to their operations and roles, emergencies related to shooting actions require proper attention to change the face of active shooter events. In response to the circumstancese police officers are expected to prevent unnecessary killings that might be realized in shooter events through the intensefrontation of all issues related to the event. In evaluating the link, they indicate that the difficulties in determining the police’s role in such events can easily be determined if better measures are put in place while saving innocent lives. The research also fills all the gaps in policing scholarship through evaluating the viewpoint of police officers in handling cases related to active shooter events. The studstudy’serature review shows that the police and the public’s expectations about the behavior of each other are characterized with the possible outcome that can be retrieved from their roles. The specific examples from the emergency management processes that are evident in the study show that if each police are assigned a specific role during the event, they can better understand the issues related to their operations. Other cross-sectional studies conducted in the study to boost its evaluation and analysis of the topic indicate that the difference in the expectation of the police and the public play a significant role in determining the needed outcome in the emergency response processes. Regardless of the associated variables in the emergency management process that can be used to validate the role of the police and the public, the study holds that shifting away from service and peacekeeping roles, which are the community policing approach, emphasizes the law enforcement.
Moreover, Martaindale, Sandel, &Pete Blair (2017), in their study, outlined various types of dangerous incidences that are related to active shooter events as the way through which they can be addressed. The existence of a standard approach reveals that equipping street officers with the necessary tools and equipment to control active shooter events ensures that the event does not affect many people. The emphasis on addressing personal danger is balanced against such events helps police officers address approaches that can be initiated to save more lives. In their study, the authors further reiterate that police officers’ willingness to control dangers associated with active shooter events helps ensure safety standards among people (Deuchar, Fallik, & Crichlow, 2018). The authors also hold that the dangers police officers are exposed to in the efforts to control events related to active shooters determine the impact of the incident. Martindale and Blair (2019) addressed the police’s risks in their attempts to control active shooter events. They started that police officers have initiated active measures in deciding some of the most appropriate ways through which such events can be controlled. Martindale and Blair (2019) added that dealing with emergency cases require the police to work actively and effectively. The rationale and efforts that they put in place should be able to offer the police an explicit way through which they can handle incidences related to active shooter events. Overall, the focus of the study tries to explore the role of the police in active shooter events and the expectations of the public.
References
Deuchar, R., Fallik, S.W., & Crichlow, V.J. (2018). Despondent officer narratives and postpost-Ferguson’effectploring law enforcement perspectives and strategies in a southern American state. Policing and Society, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/104
Hunter Martaindale, M., Sandel, W. L., & Pete Blair, J. (2017). Active-shooter events in the workplace: Findings and policy implications. Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 11(1), 6-20
