And you think that this "film" will depict how the brave sheriff "resource officer" at the school ran away when he came under fire? Or how the heroic SWAT troopies waited outside for THREE HOURS while the killing inside proceeded? You have a decent point here.
However, it is flawed by your blaming the cops who were only following their tactical doctrine. Just like the people who blame the security personnel who allowed the 911 hijackers to board.
In both cases, the problem was not with the personnel who did their jobs as they were told. It is with the instructions they were given. Those instructions were based on faulty assumptions about the perpetrators.
In the Columbine case, the assumption was that the intruders would take hostages and negotiate, rather than just kill as many people as they could. Based on experience up to that point, this was a logical assumption.
If the deputy on guard had returned fire and gunned down one or both students, there would have been an enormous outcry about the police killing "students," since the enormity of what they were going to do would have been unknown.
Similarly, the passengers on the first three 911 planes did exactly what the media and government had told us to do for years: don't resist. You'll fly around for a few days and then be released. Maybe you'll get to write a book about the experience or sell movie rights.
Once the intent of the hijackers was known, on the third plane it apparently took the passengers only a few minutes to organize a counterattack. That's what we should remember and be proud of. It took the hijackers many years to plan and execute their attack. It took a couple dozen random Americans less than 15 minutes to counterattack successfully.
Had the rank and file police known what was happening inside Columbine, I have no doubt they would have been glad to charge in. Blame the media and liberal culture for paralyzing their instincts, not the individual cops.
Both of these events change the way we all see the world. Don't blame those who didn't see it differently before they happened. We didn't either.
I see what you are saying. I must point out that police officers operate under the potential risks of injuring or killing innocents in every armed engagement they encounter. And this does happen, and the cops almost to a man end up completely exonerated.
If tactical doctrine was responsible for their paralysis, then that doctrine needs to be modified to allow more on-the-ground on-the-spot command decisions. There is far too much emphasis nowadays on "protect your own skin and never mind the little people". This is certainly not applicable to all, but common enough to pose a large problem. That's the primary reason I left the military and would not make a good cop -- I "think for myself" too much, and will disregard orders when I see fit, such as if I'm ordered to stay outside while hearing gunfire and screams issuing from inside the building. Media and CYA-police-cheif's claims to the contrary, this was the case as I have understood it.
"A man's got to know his limitations", as the saying goes. I know mine, and that's why I've deliberately avoided having my actions in such circumstances be dictated by armchair bureaucrats. Individual mileage, as they say, will vary.
Stay safe,
