On Friday February 12, 2010, I had the pleasure of teaching PowerPhone’s Active Shooting Response (ASR) class at the Oxford, Massachusetts Police Department.  One of the students in the class asked why there have been so few females that have perpetrated these horrific crimes.  I advised her that in my experience and research, females have resorted to such violence,...

Jurors heard 911 tapes of people calling from inside the New York-New York casino on July 6, 2007, reporting gunfire.

George Deuchar, PowerPhone’s Director of Training, recently wrote an article on the dispatcher’s role in active shooting incidents for the April/May 2009 issue of 9-1-1 Magazine.

Recordings of three 911 calls after two Milwaukee police officers were shot were released Monday.   Police say officers Graham Kunisch and Bryan Norberg were on patrol in Walker’s Point when they were shot by a teenager June 9. A number of people in the crowded neighborhood saw or heard the shooting. While some called 911, others rushed to the officers’ aid...