Differences between the police response to a hostage situation where the scene is stable and the hostage taker is making demands and the police response to an active shooter event.

This paper, like all assignments, must be a minimum of 500 words (about two pages), typed with size 12, Times New Roman font, double spaced with proper grammar and spelling. Students must cite all work used; references and any direct quotations must be cited; submitted as Microsoft WORD (.doc) attachments via the web site. Papers submitted in another format may not be graded if the instructor is unable to open the file. Papers which do not cite another author’s work in quotation marks with an appropriate citation or papers which are several online articles “cut and pasted” together, is plagiarism and the student will be given an “F” for the class. Police agencies have made a major shift in response to an active shooter incidents like school shootings and the Trolley Square Mall in Utah. Please write your paper about the differences between the police response to a hostage situation where the scene is stable and the hostage taker is making demands and the police response to an active shooter event. You DO NOT need to include the definitions of the situations, but do include your understanding of the response to each and why it is done that way. You may include any ideas you have of how to make each situation response better.