HLS300 Parkland Florida Shooting Homeland Security Paper

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On February 28, 2018, a school shooting occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that resulted in the death of 17 people. Conduct research on the disaster and analyze the following:

  1. Discuss the response and recovery efforts and their effectiveness.
  2. Assess the usefulness and need for crisis management.
  3. Did the school have an emergency plan for all-hazards?
  4. Assess the security measures that would have prevented the active shooter incident.

Your paper should be 3 pages in length and format to APA style. cite at least three scholarly sources. Factual articles written about the incident can also be used.

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Title: Parkland Florida Shooting

Thesis Statement: Having a good and effective disaster management plan is essential in
mitigating effects caused by disastrous events.
Topic
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II.

Introduction
Response and recovery efforts and their effectiveness

III.

The usefulness and need for crisis management

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Whether the school had an emergency plan for all hazards

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VI.

Assess the security measures that would have prevented the active shooter incident
Conclusion


Running head: PARKLAND FLORIDA SHOOTING

Parkland Florida Shooting

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PARKLAND FLORIDA SHOOTING
Introduction
On February 28, 2018, another deadly shooting happened in Marjory Stoneman High
school in Parkland Florida. The armed teenage sneaked in the school compound with a rifle
shooting students and staffs in the school compound. The incidence cost the lives of 17 people
and other nursing gun wounds. Some of them who lost their life were 16 students and one staff
who was identified as a school football coach. This incident raises the issue of disaster
management and response in the schools. According to Eriksson, (2017), emergency
management involves managing and organizing resources to deal with the occurrences of
emergency events. Ideally, disasters are unprecedented events which result in serious financial

and economic implications. Disaster management entails enhancing the preparedness, response,
and recovery of an institution towards expected events. In this regard, a good disaster
management plan would have applied by the Marjory Stoneman High school to mitigate the
adverse effects that would be caused by an occurrence of a disaster. Havin...


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