Posted on 11/22/2013 3:31:10 PM PST by marktwain
Ahead of the release of part of the official police report on the Sandy Hook Elementary School spree killing, courant.com reports that the police responding to the school did so in a less-than-timely manner. “Among the aspects of the response under scrutiny was a decision by the first responding Newtown officer to park nearly a quarter mile away at the top of the driveway to the school and wait for other officers to arrive, sources familiar with the investigation said. Those officers moved to the school on foot along the tree line . . . Dispatch records indicate the first 911 call came in just before 9:36 and the first officer arrived at the school at about 9:37:30. The dispatch tapes indicate there were officers in the school at 9:44, but don’t make clear exactly when the first officer entered.” More on that timeline . . .
One family member who requested anonymity said the report did include a timeline and that [Danbury State's Attorney Stephen] Sedensky told them during the meeting state police and Newtown officers entered the building simultaneously . . .
The first state troopers to arrive at the school came from Troop A in Southbury. Sources with knowledge of the investigation said many of them went in the school through a door that was smashed open by members of the Statewide Narcotics Task Force on the corner of the building near the playground. Others went through the glass window that Lanza shot out. Newtown police entered through the rest of the school and the boiler room.
As we surmised, the Newtown cops did not follow active shooter protocol: enter upon arrival, locate and engage the threat with all due speed. Children died while the cops rallied.
Dispatch records indicate that about three minutes after the initial 911 call, a dispatcher told the officers that the shooting had stopped and the school was in lockdown. Within a minute of that report, the dispatcher alerted officers that teachers could hear shooting and states the “shooter is apparently still shooting in the officer area.”
We still don’t know the exact chain of events. But it’s now clear that some members of the Newtown police force arrived, waited for backup, then entered. Whether the first responding police officers could have prevented some of those deaths may be a moot point for the parents of the victims and survivors, but it’s not for those of us who have children in school.
We need to know exactly what went wrong that horrible day, so that deficiencies can be addressed and children’s lives protected. One thing’s for certain: the post-Newtown “debate” over civilian disarmament would have been different if this information had come to light soon after the shooting. As it should have.
Shame on the Connecticut police and Constitution State politicians for sacrificing children’s safety on the altar of their personal, professional and political ambitions.
From one of the comments:
This is correct. We long ago abandoned the tactical team work and stacking procedures when an active shooter is running around. This has been instituted on a national level. Its not a local thang..
1.) Find shooter, 2.)Stop shooter. 3.) Eat Donut.
That is the protocol. Much discussion has been vetted about the acceptable losses of officers lives, should the first or second officer go down, and, on a national level, especially when kids are involved. These are acceptable losses. The goal is to put pressure on and keep the shooters attention on us and not the kids. If the first wave should fail…the next ones gets as crack…etc. Either way, keep the shooters attention on us and never ending pressure, no more surround and negotiate.
OMG....FIRST RESPONDER?????? He was like an ONLOOKER. This is INSANE!!!
LEOtards......To protect (our pensions) and to serve (our unions).
PS - Cops have zero legal responsibility to protect or serve anybody except themselves.
That would require cops doing something that doesn’t raise revenue for the State.
Cops are good at writing reports and putting people in body bags. That’s about it.
That’s why everyone should be armed. Everybody wins that way and the cops just get to do what they are good at, writing reports and keeping tasers charged.
Hey, Hey, Hey!
He got to go home safe to his family.
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I can still remember how disgusted I was over the Columbine shootings. I think the cops were cowards. They just stayed outside for a long time while kids were being killed.
Seems like a repeat.
Good thing we’re buying them all that fancy black nomex wannabe ninjya kook gear huh...?
“Whatever it takes for me to go home a safe coward at the end of my shift...”
DISGUSTED.
they did the same at Columbine.
Their job used to be to protect and serve and that was why LEOs were so respected; they would protect US first. But now it is just CYA...
IBFTJBL Post
Jackboot Lickers.
Guess they were afraid of getting shot.
Well at least the hero went home safe. Right?
Have the come up with the final story of what really happened? Oh, there still writing the script
probably heard there where no unarmed dogs to shoot and someone might shoot back.
I am loosing respect for the police every day.
Good at robbing freepers but won’t take a chance for dying kids.
Thug = coward
Unarmed dogs and especially tied up. They’re easier to shoot that way.
Same as Columbine.
Beat me to it...
At least they apparently couldn't find a family's pet dog to shoot this time. Those Pekinese have some sharp teeth!
I felt exactly that way myself. The officers, when confronted about it, were angry and defensive, saying that they didn't know how many shooters there were, and where they were. One of the shooters was spotted outside the school only 60 yards from one of the officers. While that's a difficult shot for a handgun, it takes literally only seconds to close that distance and engage the shooter.
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