How to Make Active Shooter Drills Less Traumatizing For Students

How to Make Active Shooter Drills Less Traumatizing For Students

When the Snowflake-Taylor police department in the high desert of Arizona conducted an active shooter drill at Snowflake High School in October 2024, students didn’t take it seriously, says police chief Bobby Martin. They were wandering around campus, laughing, having conversations, and not locking doors. So at the start of this year, the police department decided to make things more realistic: they’d hold a drill without advance notice, and per…