This took just over a hour. The Texas Tower shooting took two hours to end and the Orlando night club shooting took over three hours. The fact is the Las Vegas police took him out in near record time.
The police have to get to the scene; figure out whats going on amid total chaos; have enough police to shoot back or keep shooters from escaping (think the beltway sniper attacks); figure out a plan; and carry it out. Except in this case, there were 450 to 500 dead and wounded all over and something like twenty thousand people getting out of the way. This attack was into 9/11 and 11/M territory. There is no by-the-book response to those kind of attack.
Also, he didn't start shooting into the street again after his first attack. If he did, snipers or patrolmen with rifles would have fired back. They knew a fire alarm had gone off in a room, but he could have moved to a different room or floor or had set up a ambush, maybe with a bomb. Now try imagine being a police officer, no matter how well trained or experienced, dealing with all this.
The LVPD police did better than most police could have done.
I agree. Initially witnesses were saying that the shooting only went on for “about two minutes” - saw more than one say that on live tv.
“Police have to get to the scene?”
Have you ever been to the Strip? There are Police everywhere.
I agree.
The response time wasn’t ideal (ten minutes before the shooting started is ideal), but it was better than many.
There aren’t rooms filled with SWAT guys ready to go at a moments notice. It takes a bit to spool up and deploy.