The cops weren’t incompetent. They were just up against a smart kid. He got into Pitt Engineering (#45 nationwide). The average SAT score for Pitt Engineering is 1400.
https://i.imgur.com/Po3fbzy.png
Assuming he’s merely average among admits, that puts him in the 95th percentile.
https://www.appily.com/colleges/sat/1400
In other words, he’s smarter than most of the security entourage. It’s like getting a 97 on the ASVAB.
Crooks graduated from a community college. He would have needed a minimum 3.25 GPA for Pitt Engineering - but not an SAT score.
https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/first-year/transfer-students/transfer-students/
https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/first-year/transfer-students/external-transfer-students/
He turned down Pitt to attend Robert Morris in the fall. That school requires a minimum 3.0 GPA to transfer into engineering. No SAT score required.
https://www.rmu.edu/admissions/transfer/requirements
No doubt he was book smart. But, was he so brilliant that he could outsmart everyone - Secret Service and the police?
All the red flags were there, and they did nothing. Either they were incompetent, or it was a conspiracy.