The more militarized the police get the more concerned it seems they get about taking less risk.
Which sorta defeats the purpose.
When I was a boy..even beat cops with SW .38s would not have sat on their black ops clad asses while kids were being shot inside
some would have taken an initiative and tried
juxtapose Columbine with the University of Texas shooting in the mid 60s and you’ll see what I mean
you can count on cops less today then in the old days...but they sure look meaner
the video game generation
Prior to Columbine training said you set up a perimeter and let SWAT deal with the entry or hostage negotiation.
Prior to 9/11 people were conditioned to sit in their seat on a plane assuming it was a hijacking and let the authorities negotiate a resolution.
Tactics change from experiences both good and bad. Today, the police train for “active shooters” and engagement is the first priority.
People will no longer sit still in a plane when someone attempts to take it over with box-cutters.
Thankfully, events like Columbine and 9/11 are very rare and often beyond imagination. Having scorn for the first officers on the scene in the middle of the chaos at Columbine is like being angry with the passengers on the hijacked planes that hit buildings on 9/11. They did what they were conditioned to do based on prior actions with the mindset that their actions were statistically the right choice. “Active Shooter” was not a police term prior to Columbine. The only one that I can remember right off was the gunman in the clock tower at the University of Texas in the 60’s.
How many died while they wasted dressing up as ninjas?