North Carolina educators pick Roy Cooper as Attorney General in 2008
Cooper’s push to prepare schools to respond to an emergency crisis such as a school shooting is working. Since the launch of the Critical Incident Response Kit to every public, private and charter school across the state, more than 1,400 schools have been trained to respond to an emergency.
His plan, the Critical Incident Response Kit, was recognized by the US Department of Education as one of only three promising examples of school emergency responses in the nation. Cooper’s work has changed the way law enforcement officers respond to a shooting. Before the Columbine tragedy, local law enforcement first responded by “surrounding and containing” events until the arrival of a SWAT team.
Cooper has made available to all local law enforcement agencies training in the Rapid Deployment technique, which teaches law enforcement officers how to effectively locate and subdue the active shooter. Today, hundreds of law enforcement agencies have been trained in this technique.
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After the Virginia Tech shooting, Cooper appointed and directed a statewide task force to take the same comprehensive approach to college campuses public and private. The members are working toward better prevention, response and recovery methods across the state.