I think the police performed well. They were on the floor 12 minutes after the concert shooting started. This was despite conflicting information about the location of the shooter.
If one of the two Mandalay employees on the floor had talked to police directly, it seems reasonable to believe that officers would have been able to arrive in less than 12 minutes and before Paddock quit on his own.
At that point, outgunned police officers would have had a tough choice to make. But that didn’t happen, in large part, because of the delay by the hotel employees.
I agree. But I am still hesitant to criticize Mandalay Bay based on the 6 minute figure at this point. That is an assumption based on a comment from an unnamed source. It could have been 4 minutes, which might be more reasonable. But it might have been 10 minutes, or even longer, which would have been an eternity under the circumstances.
Also, if we want a full picture, we need to know when the cops were first called by anyone, not just the hotel.