Since the mass murderer profile is based on the article from PoliceOne that cites Borsch, I would like to add the additional shortcomings to the article that indicate some serious shortcomings.
Borsch's research came primarily from internet research. The claim made in the PoliceOne article that...
The researcher "...has found no evidence of any LEO in the U.S. yet being wounded or killed in an active-shooting incident "
If that is the case, then the researcher on whom all this is based did some poor research.
What poor research? Glad you asked. So no officers have been injured or killed during active shooter situations in the US.
BULL! Mind you, I am not the expert, but by golly I can find lots of incidents to the contrary using the exact same resource he used, the internet. I found a "lot" when you consider the apsect that there aren't supposed to be ANY such indcidents.
Officer Billy Paul Speed was killed by Charles Whitman. Speed was one of the first officers arriving on scene at UT, responding to the shooting. UT is in Texas and was part of the United States at the time of the shooting. This is just one internet references of dozens that were apparently missed by Borsch...
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/whitman/index_1.html
Officer Allen Mcleod was killed and three other officers wounded by Frederick Cowan during his mass murder active shooter rampage in New York. At the time of the shooting, New York was part of the United States.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/n...einhard_4.html
Officer Elmo Gabbert was shot in the hip by Kenneth Tornes during a standoff after cops chased Tornes after he killed is wife and then several firefighters at a fire station. This happened in Mississippi which was part of the US at the time of the shooting.
http://emernet.emergency.com/ff-shoot.htm
Officer John Warde responded to a workplace shooting and was shot by Arturo Reyes Torres who also wounded Officer Art Romo via flying glass from a shot that missed that officer. Torres had shot and killed four coworkers and wounded another in California, located in the western United States.
http://articles.latimes.com/p/1997/dec/20/news/mn-431
And I will add the Tyler Courthouse incident where a Tyler Police Detective, Two Smith County Sheriff's Deputies were injured and CCW holder Mark Wilson was killed by David Hernandez Arroyo, Sr. And Texas was still part of the USA when this one happened as well.
http://www.kltv.com/global/story.asp?S=2994393
Well gee, I am no expert, but I can see that there are lots of officers injured or killed by active shooter mass murderers in the US. The danger is VERY REAL to officers and the article cited above misrepresents that danger to officers.
Unlike the article, I provided some links. You may or may not agree with a couple of the selections, but there is no excuse for missing classic mass murder active shooter examples such as with Whitman and Cowan. Those are fairly well known and ANYBODY researching this sort of thing should have found them.
I am certain there are more, but I think I have made my point to call into question the accuracy in profiling of mass murderer active shooters and their threat to police officers. Note that I have not included incidents like Klebold and Harris where they attempted to harm officers during the actual incident but were unsuccessful. I did not include incidents where the shooters tried to do harm to officers after being caught (like Kip Kinkel). I also didn't include Hank Earl Carr who was a mass murderer who made cops part of the mass that he murdered. AND, I didn't use any incidents that came AFTER Borsch's research was conducted such as the Alabama shooting that left 10 dead and at least one officer injured or the incident in Philly that resulted in the deaths of three officers.
Given the obvious examples of officers killed or wounded while trying to engage mass murdering active shooters that were obviously missed in the research, do you really feel inclined to believe the percentage data used to make of the profile? I would be inclined to believe that without seeing the author's actual data, the profile he has created is likely quite faulty.
Were Whitman and Cowan poor shooters? Nope. Even if the shooters were poor shooters as is being claimed, they have still managed to kill and wound several officers. You really want to address an active shooter with the assumption that the shooter will be a poor shot (hence apparently pose less risk) as claimed by Borsch?
Truthing a lot of this garbage isn't that hard.