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Let's Talk Dispatch

Last week Michigan State University was another institution added to the list of schools that have experienced a shooting. As a youth, I vividly remember the columbine school shooting and how it felt so foreign; now, school shootings are something children are trained to react to.As an adult and now a dispatcher, I have sat through active shooter training, been prepped on my department’s procedures, and taken phone calls reporting potential threats. The dispatcher who handled the in...