{"id":2010,"date":"2023-12-07T23:32:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T00:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shinsori.me\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2023-12-08T02:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T02:26:13","slug":"are-university-of-utah-police-prepared-for-an-attack-like-at-unlv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shinsori.me\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/are-university-of-utah-police-prepared-for-an-attack-like-at-unlv\/","title":{"rendered":"Are University of Utah police prepared for an attack like at UNLV?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A training video of an active shooter scenario produced by the University of Utah for students, staff and faculty instructs viewers to \u201crun, hide, fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n

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The University of Utah is prepared for an active aggressor event such as the gunman who shot and killed three faculty members on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus on Tuesday, a U. public safety official said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A fourth UNLV educator was injured and remained hospitalized on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The shooter, identified by police as Anthony Polito, a longtime business professor, had reportedly applied for a position at UNLV but was not hired. The shooter was killed by police, ending the rampage, according to media reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before the shooting, the gunman mailed 22 letters to university faculty members across the U.S., but the contents of those letters wasn\u2019t immediately known, according to media reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A U. spokesman Shawn Wood said the university had not heard of any U. faculty who had received letters.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the shooting, Jason C. Hinojosa, administrative captain of the U.\u2019s Department of Public Safety, said the agency and campus prepare to respond to such events. He described both the training and planned response as \u201crobust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officers study campus shooting to learn more about how community and campus-based law enforcement agencies handle various events.<\/p>\n

Public safety officers at the U. and statewide understand if they have to respond to such an event \u201cwe are going in. We understand that this is at great personal risk to ourselves. But that\u2019s part and parcel to the job. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve all committed to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In terms of training, the department offers training to staff and faculty and each semester, the university pushes out a training video<\/a> to students.<\/p>\n

Hinojosa said the training for staff can range from lecture and discussion \u201call the way to a full-blown exercise, then everything in between,\u201d Hinojosa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say you\u2019re really ever prepared because it\u2019s such an enormous and overwhelming thing to face. But we do train and we do educate and try to be as prepared as we can possibly be for that type of incident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The video instructs students to \u201crun, hide, fight,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s actually very well produced and it gives some pretty good information on what you would need to do if you were faced with those circumstances where you\u2019re in the workplace or you\u2019re in class or you\u2019re at an event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Active aggressor events \u201ctend to happen unexpectedly,\u201d Hinojosa said, and sometimes, the warning signs aren\u2019t apparent until the investigation after the attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes we see those, sometimes we don\u2019t. We do have a robust analysis system here on campus that coordinates with the State Information Analysis Center very, very regularly. So we have our ear to the ground quite a bit and we\u2019re always listening and willing to take any reports from anybody who may have some concern or there\u2019s some suspicious activity on campus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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A training video of an active shooter scenario produced by the University of Utah for students, staff and faculty instructs viewers to \u201crun, hide, fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n

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