MADISON, Wis. – Like so many campuses in the past week, UW-Madison police had a call about an active shooter threat on campus and thanks to preparation, they were able to determine it was false, before panic spread throughout campus.
Just after 11 a.m. the Dane County Communications Center received a call to its non-emergency line from an individual stating there was a person with an automatic rifle inside the Memorial Library and said there had been two shots fired.
“In an incident like that, we should get more than one phone call. And in this incident, we got one phone call and nothing else was happening while police were responding.” “Literally within seconds, our dispatchers were able to pull up security cameras.” “Looking inside and outside the Memorial Library and notice it was business as usual,” said UW-PD Executive Director of Communications, Marc Lovicott…