We'll be talking about the impact of gun violence in this podcast.

If this is a difficult topic for you, please take care when listening.

Columbine changed everything about law enforcement's approach to an active shooter.

And it wasn't just in Colorado, but all over the country.

Local, state, and federal agencies studied Columbine.

And police officers like Omar Delgato learned,

you don't wait for anything. You go in.

Columbine was like, unfortunately, the mold.

There was a stepping stone of what policing did wrong.

My name is Amy Over.

And this is confronting Columbine.

I remember we watched videos of the Columbine incident.

And I guess what devolved about that was if there's an active shooter as law enforcement,

we were now trained to no matter what, take out the threat.

Don't wait no standing by, no waiting for SWOT, no waiting for orders or anything like that.

No, you're witnessing an active shooter. You were trained to take out the threat.

So, you know, you were taught how to do room clearing,

go into a building, stacked up where the main goal is to find a shooter.

And that was pretty much how it was taught, I guess, throughout the country,

because we all learned a lot from Columbine.

I don't recall how long it took them, you know, to finally go in or what the situation was.

I'm sure you, Amy, remember.

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