Posted on 07/06/2022 4:15:32 PM PDT by nesnah
A new report from the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University shows that law enforcement responding to the Uvalde school shooting on May 24 had three missed chances to slow the gunman before the fatal shooting that resulted in the deaths of 19 students and two adults.
According to the report, a Uvalde officer armed with a rifle sighted in to shoot the 18-year-old gunman before he entered the school but instead waited for permission from a supervisor. The report states that the officer turned to the supervisor "to get confirmation" about shooting the suspect and that when he turned back to the shooter, he had missed his chance – the gunman was already inside the building.
And the HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. police had 3 also!! PATHETIC POLICE WORK!! PATHETIC!
If someone brandishes a weapon on a school property, no one should need permission from his supervisor, the mayor, the governor or President to take him down. C’mon!
Each one of these failures can be traced directly back to Uvalde CISD police chief Pete Arredondo.
Seems that Pete had his political career to worry about - getting elected to the city council, maybe later as Uvalde mayor or Texas governor? - so the safety of Uvalde students and faculty were of lesser importance.
We got his resignation. Now we need his apology, preferably in a suicide note.
Exactly
the last excuse was because there were people behind the target and he was afraid of hitting them...
The blame though isn't on the cops so much as on our society in general.
We have delusions about the reality of police work because of TV and cinematic distortions of real life.
This results in overblown reaction to real events, like riots in cities, because someone of a protected class was killed while committing crime.
As a result, police officers are more cautious about using their own judgement and their fear of repercussions for making a decision.
Then again, if the shooter was killed before he started shooting, ppl would blame the cops for killing a poor minority teen who “dindu nuffin.” Then the parents would sue the police dept. for wrongful death, etc. SMDH at what we’ve become.
“The blame though isn’t on the cops so much as on our society in general.”
The blame is on the cops. The “society in general” tried to rush in and save the kids, but were stopped by those same cops.
I was born in HP, went to High School there in the 1960s-—it was a classically “well-meaning” Liberal place where the professional-class parents would host things like “Integration Parties in their homes with everyone, parents and children alike to come and sit and engage with a black minister usually from S. Side Chicago come and talk about race relations-—this was still a few years before everything exploded, maybe 1963. A very edifiying experience I am glad was part of my background , even though i was from the working class town 2 miles further north, Highwood. Ironically I found out yesterday that the killer Crimo Jr. was actually living in Highwood, with his father and Uncle. I can tell you in no uncertain terms that a family like the Crimos did not even exist in any section of HP when I grew up. There were VERY few kids who weren’t high achievers, and weren’t college bound—and those very very few took out their aggressions in sports like High School football > Highland Park High School was one of the most highly rated in the country. I can see how the HP PDept. would not know how to come down hard on the situations this family presented them with on 2 occassions in 2019. Kid had already accumulated a number of weapons including several knives. A second incident involving the Crimos had the parents refusing to press charges (which would’ve sent up automatic “red flags” on his record) and so the monstrous child remained in their “custody” so to speak.
What you say is true, but Police Commanders and attorneys for the School District should have figured this out before the fact. Faced with choice of potential massacre of numerous children and teachers massacred or some asshole’s family filing a dubious lawsuit, every police force and school district in the land should choose getting sued, and make sure every officer knows to kill any scum who threatens a school shoot up. For an officer to have stopped to ask permission is another abject training and command failure.
He was concerned he might have missed the memo and it was a cartel operation. He didn’t want to end up in a 55-gallon drum of acid.
Where the cartels reign supreme, cops who aren’t cowards are weeded out quickly.
The forth was legally armed chest pounding gun owners doing nothing while children were being slaughtered.
The ONLY gun control I approve of is the taking of the guns from legally armed citizens who did nothing.
agree!
No time to being worrying about the lawyers! Let your lawyers worry about their lawyers!!
very very VERY good point Ken!!
Ever since the OJ Simpson fiasco, cops have been hammered for anything and everything they do.
Every one of the cops in Ugalde should be charged with Manslaughter
The blame is precisely on the cops.
Uvalde**
Yes, the officer needed permission.
Otherwise the left would have been after him for murder.
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