After the initial shooting, the school should have been swarming with law enforcement within 15 minutes or so.
> After the initial shooting, the school should have been
> swarming with law enforcement within 15 minutes or so.
A swarm is a relative term. I thought I heard there were 8 cruisers responding to investigate the first shooting, though maybe my memory is faulty. That’s a lot of cops. If you’re not in a metropolitan area, that might, in fact, be all of them.
There are good points made that there was no way to know whether the shooter was still on campus. Setting 100 police to beating the bushes for a suspect who might be in Washington DC would clearly be a waste of public resources.
Setting all available police to be on the lookout for a possibly armed and dangerous fugitive and effectively and promptly notifying the population that there had been a murder and the suspect was at large would be a reasonable response (imo).