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Glossary entry

Swedish term or phrase:

Pågående dödligt våld

English translation:

Active shooter situation

    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2019-04-29 11:54:07 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Apr 25, 2019 17:22
6 yrs ago
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Swedish term

Pågående dödligt våld

Swedish to English Law/Patents Law (general) Law Enforcement
Ett exempel är en nyligen genomförd PDV-utbildning (Pågående dödligt våld) som skett på deras initiativ och kostnad.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 Active shooter situation
4 Ongoing deathly violence
4 Active Shooter Alert
4 Lethal violence attack
3 Life-threatening violence in progress

Discussion

Chris Says Bye Apr 27, 2019:
I wouldn’t have thought it would require much special training to deal with a knife attack
Agneta Pallinder Apr 26, 2019:
@Michele That's a good point, but perhaps a problem with MCA is that it does not make clear that it is a current (pågående) event. I suppose "Active Shooter Situation" which is notified by an "Active Shooter Alert" got established so strongly because in the US it has so often been a question of gun violence.
Michele Fauble Apr 26, 2019:
Mass Casualty Attack “The terminology "active shooter" is critiqued by some academics. There have been several mass stabbings that have high casualty counts, ... “
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_shooter
Plamen Nenchev (asker) Apr 26, 2019:
"a spot of mind reading" Are you really asking why I am looking for the English equivalent of the Swedish term (rather than for a literal word-for-word translation)?
George Hopkins Apr 26, 2019:
Only translations? Are we being asked to translate or to do a spot of mind reading?
Chris Says Bye Apr 26, 2019:
Plus it sounds really cool
Plamen Nenchev (asker) Apr 26, 2019:
Agneta might be onto something, as all other suggestions are not terms that actually mean something in English but only translations.

Proposed translations

+1
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Selected

Active shooter situation

Not a translation, but the equivalent standard expression, used by police, security training companies etc.
Peer comment(s):
agree Chris Says Bye
4 mins
Thanks Chris!
agree Michele Fauble : BUT see my added note.
7 hrs
Thanks Michele!
disagree Sven Petersson : Too specific; what about knives, bombs, chemical and biological terror attacks, etc?
1 day 9 hrs
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Ongoing deathly violence

Direct translation.
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17 hrs

Active Shooter Alert

Term commonly heard in the U.S., I'm afraid...
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20 hrs

Life-threatening violence in progress

:o)
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1 hr

Lethal violence attack

PDV refers to random lethal attacks targeting people in public places, school shootings, terrorist attacks, etc.

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Note added at 1 hr (2019-04-25 19:01:17 GMT)
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Or ‘Lethal violence attacks in progress’

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Note added at 21 hrs (2019-04-26 15:07:34 GMT)
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The terminology "active shooter" is critiqued by some academics. There have been several mass stabbings that have high casualty counts, for instance in Belgium (Dendermonde nursery attack), Canada (2014 Calgary stabbing), China (2008 Beijing Drum Tower stabbings), Japan (Osaka School Massacre and Sagamihara stabbings), and Pennsylvania (Franklin Regional High School stabbing). Ron Borsch recommends the phrase "rapid mass murder". Due to a worldwide increase in firearm and non-firearm based Mass Casualty Attacks (including attacks with vehicles, explosives, incendiary devices, stabbings, slashing, acid attacks), Dr. Tau Braun and the Violence Prevention Agency (VPA) has encouraged the use of the more accurate descriptor Mass Casualty Attacker (MCA).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_shooter
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