Fort Lauderdale’s Threat Response Unit is ‘preventing tragedy’ through evidence-based red flag laws

5th August 2022Christine Townsend, Policing Insight

In the wake of the 2014 University of California shootings, a number of US states began utilising Extreme Risk Protection Orders, with Florida’s Fort Lauderdale PD among those leading the way; Policing Insight’s Christine Townsend spoke to Detective Christopher Carita about the success of the so-called ‘red flag’ laws, and how the Parkland high school shooting in 2018 made things much more personal for FLPD’s Threat Response Unit.

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Fort Lauderdale’s Threat Response Unit is ‘preventing tragedy’ through evidence-based red flag laws

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