The speed of the police response to the Colorado school attack was due in large part to a direct radio link in the school, sheriff tells NBCNews.
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — In the race to protect American students from shootings, one of the simplest and most affordable upgrades authorities can make is to put a two-way police radio inside every school, experts say.Relatively few schools have one, however.a pair of armed students opened fire on Tuesday
In active shootings, every moment counts: Research has showed that such attacks typically last four to six minutes. That is why police are, even if they are alone ─ a lesson from the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School, when police waited 45 minutes to prepare a tactical unit while students rampaged through the building, killing 13 people and themselves.
"Typically in law enforcement we’re protective of our stuff, our toys, radio communications even more so," Lavarello said."In assessments, we tell them to try to bring down that wall, because if you can narrow the time on communications, that's key." More officers poured into the school as they arrived, many of them rushing from a police substation four blocks away, he said.
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