Active shooter incidents

Hospital-based active shooter incidents: sanctuary under fire.

On January 20, 2015,Michael J. Davidson, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon, was fatally shot on the premises of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In the year leading up to this tragic day, a total of 14 active shooter incidents occurred in hospitals throughout the United States, leaving 15 fatalities in their wake. This reality and its potential amplification by copycats has...

Improving Survival from Active Shooter Events: The Hartford Consensus.

Dr. Lenworth Jacobs, Hartford Hospital, Board of Regents, American College of Surgeons Dr. Norman McSwain, Medical Director, Prehospital Trauma Life Support Dr. Michael Rotondo, Chair, American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Dr. David Wade, Chief Medical Officer, FBI Dr. William Fabbri, Medical Director, Emergency Medical Support Program, FBI Dr. Alexander Eastman, Major Cities Chiefs ...

An Empirical Assessment of the Problem of Multi-shooter, Multi-shot Deadly Force Incidents in Police Work

Recent police shootings in which multiple officers fired numerous rounds at suspects have led some observers to assert that such situations involve “contagious fire,” where an initial officer’s shots launch a cascade of gunfire from other officers present. Although there is anecdotal recognition of the contagious fire phenomenon among police and the media, there is not a single empirical study ...

First Person Shooter Game

3D game development is an exciting activity for many students. But getting a handle on 3D game development for novices may be a daunting task. We take this opportunity to present a quick introduction to 3D game development through a few tutorials. For the next few columns a set of tutorials for a 3D first person shooter game developed by graduate and undergraduate students under the guidance of...

Shooter Location Problem