Posted on 06/23/2022 7:17:39 AM PDT by conservative98
Uvalde school district police Chief Pete Arredondo was placed on leave Wednesday, nearly a month after his department botched the response to the Robb Elementary School shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
Arredondo was excused of his duties by Superintendent Dr. Hal Harrell after it was found that cops under his command waited 77 minutes to confront gunman Salvador Ramos on May 24.
“From the beginning of this horrible event, I shared that the district would wait until the investigation was complete before making personnel decisions,” Harrell wrote in a press release.
“Today, I am still without details of the investigations being conducted by various agencies. Because of the lack of clarity that remains and the unknown timing of when I will receive the results of the investigations, I have made the decision to place Chief Arredondo on administrative leave effective this date.”
The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety testified Tuesday that Arredondo’s response was an “abject failure” and said the chief put the lives of cops “before the lives of children.”
“Mistakes were made and it should have never happened that way and we can’t allow that to ever happen … this set our profession back a decade,” DPS Director Steve McCraw told state senators.
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Hopefully he will get a new job flippin burgers
This clown is complicit in all the murders at the school and should be prosecuted accordingly.
He doesn't work for the local PD, city council, or mayor. He works for the school district, and this is the way public education does it.
Texas law allows for that. My school district does it. Uvalde chose not to.
In a just world, we would arrest him and press charges.
When seconds count, cops are only 77 minutes, and one unlocked door, away!
In a just world the parents whose sons and daughters lay screaming in pain and terror for over an hour while they bled out would arrange for him to suffer the same fate.
Just my 2¢, YMMV.
They don't have to do it personally. The Zanti Misfits solution would work just fine.
An honorable man would have already gone into a closet with his pistol and ended his own miserable life.
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PAID LEAVE........VACATION!!! He should be FIRED and SUED!
Because today, most teachers in public schools are NUTS!
He’s nothing but a DEMOCRAT LIAR!! FIRE HISS FAT LAZY ASS!!
Bottom line: these are scenarios where time is of essence usually (like CPR) and it is IMPOSSIBLE for police to be everywhere or react that quickly.
Likewise, if you want a rapid or even immediate response as it starts, you need to have these assets/capabilities distributed throughout the school so that a large area is covered most of the time. Like an AED defibrillator, if they are distributed throughout, the odds are that one is close when someone needs one. The idea of police handling this issue was and is absurd. Like the TSA, they serve the purpose of showing action (politicians and bureaucrats grandstanding) but accomplish little in regards to these situations (most of the time).
Albeit police play a major role in the fix: selection and training of the volunteers, developing a plan, ensuring local police are in close coordination with the school (also avoid blue on blue). This would also make the police far more effective in such a scenario. Instead of rolling up on a completely unknown situation, you now have an intel read, maybe a clear route in... Police can't just show up and charge in (that would end in a cluster...). But if you have someone on the inside that is radioing back useful information for the police, example: that there is only one shooter, male, wearing XYZ, he's on the second floor east side of the building, armed with XYZ, then things go a lot faster!
Even if school staff cannot prevent or stop a shooter, they can in MOST cases surely contain/limit the damage. Instead of 22 dead, you might only end up with 5 dead. Often, resistance will cause some sort of backing off by the shooter (self preservation is usually still present). That's a hard pill to swallow and of course deterrence is best, but even in a worst case scenario, it will still usually limit the extent of the damage because you can react almost immediately.
So the only practical/realistic option is that you need to have select personnel at the school which are trained and have some plans on how to handle various scenarios working hand in glove with the police/sheriff.
I'm surprised that a distraught parent hasn't sought revenge.
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