Drone Danger and Active Shooter False Alarms!

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Coming to you from hometown America, the Land of the
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Free and the home of the Brave, Bedford, Virginia. Welcome
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to cop Talk. I'm Captain Robert Timbrel and I'm Sergeant
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Joe Dowley. And folks, we still have a few seats
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left in our Citizen Police Academy that will start on
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September twenty fifth, twenty twenty five, and run through November twentieth,
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twenty twenty five. The Citizen Police Academy will meet once
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a week on Thursday evenings from six pm to eight pm.
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This is an opportunity for Bedford residents to get up,
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you know, up and close and all up, you know,
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close and personal Joe actually you know, and actually Joe.
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It gives them an idea of kind of what it's
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like to be an officer, you know. And folks, you know,
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if you are not in the best of shape, well
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don't be concerned about that, okay, because the Citizen's Police
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Academy it's not designed to test your physical ability. Okay.
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We won't be doing things like foot pursuit challenges or
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having you roll around on Matt's teaching you defensive tactics,
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or even running you up and downstairs. Okay, that's not
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what we're trying to do with this academy. Okay, so
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we're not going to beat you up in it. The
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Citizens Police Academy is designed to be a low impact
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as possible for you so that you can have you know,
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fun learning about what cops do, okay, and all it
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takes is an open mind, a bit of curiosity, and
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a desire to have well, have fun. Okay, that's what
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we're all about. And yes, if you have ever wondered
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what it is like to be a cop, you will
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have fun at our Citizens Police Academy. It is designed
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for everyone to actually share lasts as we go through
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multiple scenarios with you, you know. And on the flip side,
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you know, don't be fooled by that is all fun
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and games, because you will also learn about various you know,
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serious nature of law enforcement and you will participate in
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hands on exercises using role players and BPD officers will
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be trading places with you and they will become the
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role players acting as the violators while you get to
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be the cops. So you know, you will learn about
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traffic radar operation and you will get to be the
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officer actually making the traffic stop on one of our
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police officers who will be acting as the violator, and
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you will get to participate in making a high risk
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stop on a vehicle whose occupants are wanted for an
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armed robbery. Will they be you know? Will they actually
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be peaceful with you and cooperate? Will they obey your
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commands or will they challenge your authority like it's done
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so many times now? On even simple traffic stops. You
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will discover very quickly how stressful and scary it can
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be when you are the one having fear of building
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looking for an active shooter. Yes, and even in simulated scenarios, folks,
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you will get a taste of the level of stress
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and you'll get to challenge yourself to overcome the fear
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of the unknown, the fear of not knowing if the
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shooter is waiting for you around the next corner. Okay,
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line and wait just for you to come around the corner.
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Do you have what it takes? Do you want to
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find out?
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You know?
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Are you ready to challenge yourself mentally, physically, and emotionally
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and prove to yourself that you have the courage to
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push on and move forward knowing that the next thing
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that you do maybe your last.
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That's pretty deep.
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Yeah, yeah, you know. It'll be fun though, And the
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main thing that folks need to remember is it's all
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safe because we're the role players, you know.
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And you know.
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The other thing, folks is if you want to take
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a step into our world and actually see if you
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can handle it, well, then join us. Okay, join us
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at the BPD Citizens Police Academy, and you will get
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to experience what ninety nine percent of the people on
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the planet never get to experience, and that is what
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it's like to be a cop, you know, a law
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enforcement professional. The highs and the lows, the complete opposite
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ends of the spectrum. And you will be surprised how
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even though you know that you are in a safe environment,
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you know that the role players who are playing the
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part of the criminals are BPD officers and staff members. Well,
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we can still get you, you know, get your breathing
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rate up, get your heart rate to increase, and your
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stress level to rise. During our force on force style scenarios.
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You will also learn how three minutes three minutes is
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actually a long time when you need assistance and the
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closest backup officer is three minutes away. And now consider
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that your closest back them in Bedford maybe fifteen minutes
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or more away. Okay, and I have had times during
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my career where my closest backup was over forty five
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minutes away when I worked for a state agency. And
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for any of you that do not feel like three
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minutes is a long time, well, join us at the
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BPD Citizens Police Academy and discover just how much can
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happen in three minutes. And it will take you actually
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less than three minutes to fill out your online application
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for the Citizens Police Academy. Folks, Okay, you can go
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and just follow these four easy steps, which is number one.
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Go to Bedfordvapolice dot com. Okay, Bedford Vapolice dot com,
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and then you click on the information tab that's at
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the top of the page. And then the next step
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is that you click on the Citizens Police Academy in
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the drop down you and then all you have to
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do is simply fill in the twelve blanks on the
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extremely short and easy to use form and then hit
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the submit button and that is all there is to it. Okay.
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For any Town of Bedford resident business owner, or community
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or civic organization member who may not want to use
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online for it, Well, you can stop by the Bedford
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Police Department at two to fifteen East Main Street and
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fill in an application. We would love you to join us. Joe,
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you know, I've actually talked a long time here and
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talked enough actually, So what's up, you know in the
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world of you know, the recent drone warnings that we've
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been hearing about.
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Yeah, there's been more than three thousand drone events near
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American airports since just since twenty twenty one, and those
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have included eleven aircrafts this year alone that have reportedly
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taken evasive action to avoid collisions. These drone incidents have
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caused significant flight delays at times near major airports, and
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in two circumstances, drones collided with aircraft conducting critical response
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operations during emergencies in California and Texas this year. As
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we've discussed here on cop talk about our concerns about
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the intentional use of drones for attacks, we also want
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to look at the concerns of things like major sporting
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events such as the upcoming twenty twenty six World Cup.
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Yeah, and Joe, you and I have actually discussed this,
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and like you said, we have shared a little of
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our concern with our audience here on cop Talk, and
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to summarize for our listeners, we feel that immediate action
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needs to be taken by Congress to allow federal, state,
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and local departments. They need to allow us full authority
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to take down drones when we have an objective reason
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to believe that the drone may be a danger to
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the public. Okay, and it appears that we are now
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actually being joined by friends in Congress. Did you just that?
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But legislation like normal is moving forward way too slowly
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for what I feel is a threat to our national secuity.
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Yeah, that's right, Rob. The senators and administrative officials are
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now saying that Congress needs to change laws to toughen
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the penalties for drone use and to get federal agencies
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new expanded authority to address drones that may be used
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to threaten the public or events. Congress in twenty eighteen
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expanded authority of the Justice Department and the Department of
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Homeland Security to disable or destroy threatening drones, and that
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authority has been temporarily extended. A new legislation would expand
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federal coverage for airports and critical infrastructures like power plants,
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oil refineries, or chemical facilities, and high risk prison of transports.
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It would also allow states and local law enforcement to
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directly take down drones without waiting for federal authorities.
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Yeah, and Joe, you know, as you know, it's been
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kind of silly because they keep on repeatedly temporarily extending that, right,
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why not just go ahead and make the legislation, right,
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you know, But since twenty eighteen, the Secret Service has
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actually tracked hundreds of drones by relating temporary flight restrictions
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that protect the President and others. And while the FBI
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and Justice Department said drones used as espionage technology within
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the United States is also increasing. So in the last
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six months of twenty twenty four, over twenty seven thousand
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drones were detected within five hundred meters of the US
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southern border. And Joe, you know, there's also those incidents,
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right that occurred at like the NFL game in the
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Boston Marathon.
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Yeah, that's right. Man pled guilty in June as a
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matter of fact, after he was charged with violating the
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Defense Airspace after he flew a drone over the NFL
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AFC Championship game in Baltimore January. In September of Auston
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man was charged with the unlawful flying drone near the
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finish line of the April twenty twenty four Boston Marathon,
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which prompted a law enforcement to seize at mid air
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and landed.
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Well, you know, so now that we've you know, gotten
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the drone thing out here on the table, I know,
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Joe that you don't really want to talk too much
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about it on an open audience, even though our audience
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is a little bit different than most audiences, you know.
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But I think we'll leave it at that, Joe. You know,
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we won't talk too much. But I mean, even Joe,
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if you didn't have an elaborate drone and you just
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wanted to fly a drone into a crowd and just
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hit somebody with it, it could cause injury, you know,
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maybe even a death.
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You know.
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So so let's let's move on and talk about something
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else that is very concerning, and that is that last month,
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as colleges and universities prepared to resume classes, students at
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nearly two dozen campuses got a grim welcome, which was
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an emergency alert, and one one student points out that
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the emergency alert said active shooter on my campus right now,
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that that student said, which was a theater student at
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the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and that student had
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posted that actually on x during the subsequent lockdown, adding
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we can't live like this, you know, Joe, And I
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can kind of relate with that. I agree with that student,
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you know. And I can just read that quote that
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that student put out there, Joe, and can fill the fear.
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That that person was feeling. It summed up very well
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in such a short statement.
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Yeah, absolutely, you know. And in seventeen states over the
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past two weeks, students returning to college campuses were confronted
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with active shooter alerts and lockdowns. They were all false alarms,
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and an online group taking credit for calling in the
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fake reports to law enforcement. All right, and all told,
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there were at least twenty two swatting hoaxes as American
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colleges during the last week of August and early September.
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Among those hit were Auburn University in Alabama, three colleges
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in Georgia, all of which received false reports on the
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same day, and Villanova University in Pennsylvania, which was swatted
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twice and most of the calls actually involved an armed
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person in the library. Some actually featured gunshot in the background. So,
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you know, Joe, what what do you what do you
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think about that?
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They're getting pretty elaborate.
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Yeah, you know, to add, yeah, we were just talking.
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It was kind of weird because we were just talking
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about voice changers, you know, right before the podcast and
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then yeah, and then to see that they're using.
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The same technology, yeah, for a nefarious purpose. Yeah, absolutely
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more convincing.
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And Joe just quickly on that, you know, as as
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both people that have worked the board and dispatch in
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the past. What does that do to a dispatcher? What
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what kind of information then does that dispatcher relate to
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the officer.
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Well, they need to tell them what they hear and
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what's going on in the background.
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Yeah, you know that that that that so the dispatcher
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can be like, you know, hey, I heard shots in
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the background right right, and now these officers are arriving
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on scene with bad information, you know, and even before that,
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I guess Joe, the officers are actually having to spawn
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at a very fast and you know, a pace to
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expedite their response. Well, which puts all those motorists, all
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those pedestrians, everybody else, that even an increased danger. And
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can you blame law enforcement because law enforcements responding to
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shots being heard by dispatch over the phone, right you know?
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I mean, so there you go.
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Right, Well, just a couple of years ago, they just
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passed the law as far as enacting tougher penalties for
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these swatting calls and these hoaxes. So I'm hoping these
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people are are getting caught and having to pay the price,
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so to speak.
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Yeah, you know, just so, I guess you know, there's
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more to be said about the response and even the
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national media taking part of this, right yeah, In.
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Some ways, these false alarms are triggering a massive police
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response and nationwide news alerts. They can be nearly as
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psychologically damaging as a shooter. Experts say. The challenges with
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these hopes is that when you're in the moment, you
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don't know if it's real or not. The individuals who
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are experiencing it, the fear of the anxiety to worry,
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all of these feelings are very real. All of these
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things can reduce psychological trauma. The burden is particularly acute
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in gen Z, the first generation for whom gun violence
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is the number one cause of death. Kids today have
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grown up with lockdown drills, and by the time they
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get to college, they may be out of practice. So
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most colleges and universities don't typically conduct drills, let alone
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officers offer thought thorough emergency response training. Students will be
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relying on the skills that they've learned in high school
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as well as elementary and middle school, but as we know,
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skills can degrade when not being used. These could potentially
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make students and staff on college campuses more vulnerable and
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less prepared to respond.
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Yeah, school swatting in they've actually accelerated in recent year years,
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but exact figures are actually hard to come by, And
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the nonprofit k through twelve School shooting database actually tracked
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eight hundred and fifty three swating incidents between January twenty
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twenty three and June of twenty twenty four. Ohly cow,
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that's a lot then, Yeah, and you know the most
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recent data available is that actual data, Joe, So I
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couldn't pull anything you know, more recent, but just from
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January twenty twenty twenty three to June twenty twenty four,
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eight hundred and fifty three Joe. You know, so in
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twenty twenty three, the FBI actually created a database to
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track swatting incidents, but it's not open to the public,
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so of course we're not going to reveal any numbers
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from that. And to tell you truth, Jow, I have
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not gone to that database and actually looked at that.
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But swatting hoax has actually first made the FBI's radar
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in two thousand and eight, but they ramped up considerably
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after the pandemic and alongside the number of gun crimes
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in and around campuses.
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You know, I was just doing some maths real quick
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while you were talking. That's sixteen months from January twenty
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three to June of twenty four, and at eight hundred
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and fifty three incidents between that time, that's an average
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of fifty three incidents a month. See, that's more than
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one a day. Yeah, it's a lot, man, It's ridiculous.
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Let's see, swatting hoaxes that trigger a large or heavy
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law enforcement present may further traumatize students who grow up
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in a violent community or have negative association with the police.
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As emergency response also raises the risk of psych physical
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danger when police cars racing to the scene. Sometimes crashes
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and other injuries can result. Two students of the University
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of Southern of South Carolina sustained minor injuries during an
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evacuation of a library building following a false active shooter
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report on January or August twenty twenty four.
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Yeah, and those hoaxes tax first responders, diverting them from
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real emergencies and raising their risk of post traumatic stress.
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And Jacqueline Shildkraut, a school safety expert, says that even
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your best training doesn't mean that your first responders are
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not going to be impacted. Your body is going to
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do what it's trained to do. You're adrenaline, Well, it's
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going through the roof, and at some point you can
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come down from that. But that repeated adrenaline over and
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over again it could be very taxing. And students who
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arrive on campus in August, looking forward to a new
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school year, only to find themselves locked down and fearing
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an active shooter may no longer feel safe on campus.
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An active shooter alert during the middle of opening masks
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for students, a Villa Nova freshman posted on x during
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in August twenty first lockdown. Everyone is hiding, Please just
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keep me in your thoughts.
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Scared and see, like we went to the one that
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was called in Here a couple of years ago, and
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at the time the school that we went to, and
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I was working and you were working, and we both
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responded with our friends from the Sheriff's office and the
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state police. My son was at the school that day.
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He told me later a couple of days after the incident,
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he said, that's he said, that is probably the most
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scared that I've ever been in my life. And not
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knowing if it was actively going on or not until
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we got there, you have to presume that it is.
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You can't assume that it's not. As a parent, you know,
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you're torn between you know, where's my child? Is he safe?
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And I have an assignment to do. But I did
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know where he would be at that time. And when
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I did see him through the window of one of
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the buildings, we hadn't checked yet that they were locked.
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Actually I saw him after we cleared it. Uh, he said, well,
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I saw you, and I knew everything was okay. Yes,
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So it made me feel good that he has that
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much confidence in me, But it made me feel awful
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that I would imagine a lot of these other students
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are feeling the same way. Yeah, Like, what do you
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remember from high school? We'll be like, I remember that
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time we had a lockdown because we thought somebody was
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an active shooter was on the campus, and that scared
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the hell out of it.
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Yeah, we were. We were flowing through that school with
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patrol rafts. Joe. If you remember, I came over with
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that lady with the key and said, Joe, because I
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was by myself, so I said, Joe, can you come
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with me? And I think you and maybe a trooper yep,
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came with science building and you know, it was it
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was one of those situations where it was a strange
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situation because I actually had no fear at that time.
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But the reason for that is one, we weren't actively
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hearing gunshots, right, Okay, so that's one thing. But number two,
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you know, the decision was made long ago in my
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mind that no matter what happens and what happens to me,
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I'm better trained, better prepared, better equipped than any student
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or teacher in that school, Joe. So we've just got
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to do what we've got to do. Yeah, you know,
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I'm just talking about from no, no, Yeah, I wasn't
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commenting on any of that. I was just saying that
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that you know, it's it was. It was a situation
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where when I came walking by, you actually said, hey,
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you need a hand because I was by, you know,
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and and you guys joined in, and that was nice
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to have that a three man team for that size
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of that building. I was getting ready to enter there,
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and uh know, one that I had had somebody right
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there that I trusted was was another big comfort to me. Yeah,
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and and so that's probably also something that that also
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you know, helped with that any fear level and everything.
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But you know, it was funny because it's like you
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and I both jel so well together that, uh you know,
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we can just look at each other know what each
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other is about to do.
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Yeah. Well, I saw you walking up with there with
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the administrator. I'm like, you're not going in there by yourself?
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Right?
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Yeah? You need do you need some do you need
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somebody to cut you got anybody to go with you?
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Yeah?
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You're like no. I was like, all right, I'm going yeah.
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Al radio to command and told them that we were
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I was going to be assistant. You were clearing and
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like you said, the troopers that were standing over there
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with me.
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He came with us, yeah, you know, and yeah, it
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was just me and my rifle and uh, but you know,
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it's nice to have you and your rifle. And and
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and trooper did I don't even know if he had
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a rifle. I think he had a pistol. Uh. But
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but that's one of those situations, folks. And and uh,
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you know, I'm not going to go too far into that,
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but we were very proud of the students one and
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their reactions because they were ready to go as well.
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And uh, you know, so the students of staff, everybody
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were taking it seriously. The emotions that we saw when
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we came through those doors and kicked those doors through, uh,
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because we were moving doors folks by fours, uh and
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moving through that building. And and one of the things
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I do recall, Joe, that you know, really kind of
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taxed my feelings a little bit, were that some of
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those sometimes the most I don't know, maybe the things
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that you take for granted, which is going to the
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restroom when you need to go, those students were stuck
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in lockdown. And I exited the build, our building, I
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exited the building, We cleared and I was actually walking
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back to the vehicle to secure my rifle, and here,
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all of a sudden, a couple of windows open, and
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the teachers like, hey, I've got some students in here
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that really need to go to the restroom, you know.
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And that's when we went back and we're able to
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you know, get them out of lockdown, to get them
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into the restrooms. But just something as small as that.
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Yeah, you forget about things like that.
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Yeah, yeah, our mind is on a possible shooter. The
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last thing on our mind was, hey, yeah, these kids
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need to go to the restroom, right, you know. So yeah,
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it was. It was one of those things. But one
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thing I can say, uh, is that every single law
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enforcement officer from all three agencies were responded went directly
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into those buildings. Okay, it was not a Uvaldi again,
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Euvaldi did not exist in Bedford.
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Okay, So well that was I'll I think you know
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the story. I'm not going to tell it on here,
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but I'll tell you after we get done.
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Yeah, and and you know, I appreciate what you said, Joe,
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because yeah, my mindset that day was like you know,
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I am I am going to go in by myself
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and so it was nice because my thought wasn't even hey,
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let me pull Joe, because you were kind of like
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on a the corner. Yeah, you had a corner security.
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I had a quad section because I was covering the
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intersection of two sidewalks at the at that intersection, and
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I had one, two, three, I had four buildings and
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a courtyard that I was covering. Yeah, all from one spot.
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Yeah, so it was it was nice. I didn't want
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to pull you from that, but you know, we had
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so many overlapping dominating fields and a view and everything
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right right in.
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Yeah. I rotated the officer from the far side of
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the campus to my spot. Yeah, take my spot. Worked
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well cover and then I rotated him back out when
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I came and cleared with you. Yeah.
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And I appreciate you you actually reaching out that day, Joe,
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because you saw my mindset. My mindset, it's one way
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and my brain is totally focused on that threat. And
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so you actually had a verbalize to me because I
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kind of just glanced over said okay, Joe's there and
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didn't even think about, hey, Joe, you want to join me,
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you know. So that was cool. So I appreciate that.
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I see David Seanfeld, a developmental behavior repeatia atrician at
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the Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the director of the
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National Center for a School Crisis and Bereavement, said he's
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seen similar fears arise when active shooter drills in high
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schools are excessive and hyper realistic. Quote, it just gives
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me them, sorry, it just gives me them the impression
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that there is an inevitable, inevitability of being in a
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violent situation, to the point where schools and college campuses
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don't want places or perceive safety.
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Tractors supply, what are they a parking lot of Tractorsply,
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I'm not exactly sure what they had though.
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But instead of becoming places where they have to worry
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about somebody coming to hurt you or harm you, he said,
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the stress can affect academic performance. There's an opportunity costs
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when we divert some of our energy towards being vigilant.
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If students don't feel as safe, they may not or
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they may be less open to meeting new people, less
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likely to engage in new thoughts and ideas as well
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as in learning.
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Yeah, the trauma stilled by a swatting hoax isn't just
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born by students, experts say it also hurts their families
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and ripples out of their communities. So you have all
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the kids who are texting their parents, shild Kraut said,
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and you have the parents who think they're not going
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to see their kids later. And that's incredible, incredibly traumatizing,
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And you don't know what kind of trauma of the
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community experience before that moment, of course. So she'ld trap
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also remembered being in Uvalde, Texas, a few weeks after
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a shooter killed nineteen students and two teachers at rob
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Elementary School in twenty twenty two, and literally every time
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a siren went off in that community, everybody froze and
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they almost looked like they were about to hit the deck.
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So even just general community members who are seeing these,
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you know, repeated lights and sirens, who are hearing these
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sort of rumors spreading about, you know, that still impacts
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them because these are community wide tragedies. So Schildkraut said
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that more could be done at the federal level to
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prevent mass shootings and suggested that this inaction has created
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an atmosphere of acceptance and that has now signaled to
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people that we can, you know, also threaten a mass
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shooting and will somehow be okay, you know, like it's
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okay to disrupt learning and it's okay to cause trouble
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and it's incredibly you know, incredibly harmful, she said. So
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we can't underscore enough that this is not a joke, Joe,
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I guess this is about the time where we need
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to go ahead and pay tribute to a falling officer
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of Canine.
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Yes, Sir, this week, we would like to pay tribute
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to Sergeant Lee Sorenson from the Thurmington Garland Police Department
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in Utah. End of watch was August the seventeenth, twenty
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twenty five. Sergeant Lee Sorensen and police officer Eric Estrata
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were shot and killed while responding to multiple nine to
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one one hang up calls at a residence near seven
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hundred North and two hundred East in trent Monton. I
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think I'm saying that right after nine pm, one of
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the officers was taken to a residence in the home
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about a domestic dispute. A man exited the house with
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a gun, open fire and mortally wounded the officer. Another
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officer arrived his back up and was also shot and killed.
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A deputy and a Canon from the Box Elder County
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Sheriff's Office was hospitalized with non life threatening injuries after
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being shot while in his troll vehicle. An additional officer
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arrived by standers convinced the man to surrender. He was
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arrested in charge with aggravated murder. Sergeant Swordsen had served
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with the Trentmond and Garland Police Department for sixteen years,
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and he survived by his wife and three children.
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Well, we definitely pay tribute. I think it's tremonton.
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Yeah.
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And the only reason I say that is because I
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talked about that while you were gone for the last
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couple of weeks. I didn't talk. I didn't pay tribute.
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I believe what I did was I talked about the
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ambush incident.
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Sorry, so mispronunciation.
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We definitely pay tribute to those officers, as well as
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all the officers and canons who have fallen in the
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line of duty. And Joe, that about wraps it up
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for this week, and we are going to be by
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ourselves here shortly because I think you have one getting
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off if they haven't already gotten off, so we'll be monitoring.
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But folks, we appreciate you, and we always want you
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to remember where your friends were, your neighbors. But most
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of all, we are your police department, and we thank
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you for your support. I'm Captain Robert Kimbrol, and I'm
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sorry there doing thank you.