I don’t like it and I think it is wrong - but typical training and protocol is to wait on swat and half the force to arrive before anyone does anything. Too bad if a bunch of children die.
Cops have become excessively risk adverse (and simultaneously verbally aggressive) - because that is the way most of the training these days is focused. If you take the job you should be willing to risk all under certain circumstances. And a school shooting should be one of them.
“I don’t like it and I think it is wrong - but typical training and protocol is to wait on swat and half the force to arrive before anyone does anything.”
My buddy is a state trooper. Years ago told me that if he were to ever learn of a shooting at our children’s school, he’d respond and head into the school without delay and against orders if necessary, because protocol is to surround the school and wait for the tactical units.
He said there’s a small chance the other cops would try to restrain him, but they aren’t going to shoot another officer in the back. He also said he’d rather get shot in his attempt than live knowing his neighbor’s kids died because he followed orders.