but he went home safe that night, and that, is all that matters... right???
Posted on 11/22/2013 3:31:10 PM PST by marktwain
Ahead of the release of part of the official police report on the Sandy Hook Elementary School spree killing, courant.com reports that the police responding to the school did so in a less-than-timely manner. “Among the aspects of the response under scrutiny was a decision by the first responding Newtown officer to park nearly a quarter mile away at the top of the driveway to the school and wait for other officers to arrive, sources familiar with the investigation said. Those officers moved to the school on foot along the tree line . . . Dispatch records indicate the first 911 call came in just before 9:36 and the first officer arrived at the school at about 9:37:30. The dispatch tapes indicate there were officers in the school at 9:44, but don’t make clear exactly when the first officer entered.” More on that timeline . . .
One family member who requested anonymity said the report did include a timeline and that [Danbury State's Attorney Stephen] Sedensky told them during the meeting state police and Newtown officers entered the building simultaneously . . .
The first state troopers to arrive at the school came from Troop A in Southbury. Sources with knowledge of the investigation said many of them went in the school through a door that was smashed open by members of the Statewide Narcotics Task Force on the corner of the building near the playground. Others went through the glass window that Lanza shot out. Newtown police entered through the rest of the school and the boiler room.
As we surmised, the Newtown cops did not follow active shooter protocol: enter upon arrival, locate and engage the threat with all due speed. Children died while the cops rallied.
Dispatch records indicate that about three minutes after the initial 911 call, a dispatcher told the officers that the shooting had stopped and the school was in lockdown. Within a minute of that report, the dispatcher alerted officers that teachers could hear shooting and states the “shooter is apparently still shooting in the officer area.”
We still don’t know the exact chain of events. But it’s now clear that some members of the Newtown police force arrived, waited for backup, then entered. Whether the first responding police officers could have prevented some of those deaths may be a moot point for the parents of the victims and survivors, but it’s not for those of us who have children in school.
We need to know exactly what went wrong that horrible day, so that deficiencies can be addressed and children’s lives protected. One thing’s for certain: the post-Newtown “debate” over civilian disarmament would have been different if this information had come to light soon after the shooting. As it should have.
Shame on the Connecticut police and Constitution State politicians for sacrificing children’s safety on the altar of their personal, professional and political ambitions.
Visions of the LAPD’s Rampart Division, where the cops robbed the drug dealers.
just remember. you’re on your own.
One suspects that the initial responder was following orders, and there may be extenuating circumstances on how those orders came to happen.
Reserving judgment for later.
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but he went home safe that night, and that, is all that matters... right???
Any idea if all Newtown cops actually have eeeeevil “assault rifles” in their patrol cars?
Exactly what does “backup” entail - it is two officers or four or ten or twenty before they enter looking to engage the shooter?
cowardly...he has to live with his actions now.
That would be hopeful I suppose.
That’s a really good question. I recently got pulled over by one and she didn’t have one in any shotgun type rack. The police chief has proven to be anti-gun (which surprised me) so I wouldn’t be surprised if the answer is only in the Sergeant’s SUV. I know they carry .40s.
That’s the way false flag operations go.
I’ve seen CT State Troopers carry them in the trunk in a hard case. Never seen a standard patrol car (crown vic or equivalent) with the rack up front in Northern CT. Of if they had the rack, it wasn’t used.
God forbid.
when seconds count, cops are minutes away.
That's a good point as well. However, I was thinking more about that one person who was a licensed landscaper and flew down to SoCal with as I recall about fourteen thousand US dollars to purchase some equipment and have it shipped back home, and the local LEOs "Arrested" the cash because it was potentially "drug money" -but did not arrest the poor fellow himself.
I don't recall what happened later, if he ever got his money back, but I seem to recall that it dragged on for quite some time and no one seemed to follow up on it as time went by. I think he had to get a lawyer, who as anyone knows do not come cheap, and had to endure more than a couple of hearings and delays, since no one seemed willing to simply let go of an easy acquisition of not-dangerous-to-acquire revenue.
Or that one teenager on a bicycle who was shot while chasing down an 'alleged' thief.
They are both examples to be admired, rather than the rule which quite a few of us have come to realize. Rather like the common saying that it is only about 97.5 percent of lawyers that make the rest look bad.
Or was that 98.5? Have to reflect upon it, I suppose.
Same at LAX: poof out your chest, mucho tactically, swing your AR around “securing the area” for 40 minutes while a poor innocent guy slowly bleeds to death as the paramedics are sequestered outside the scene.
Gee, it’s only taken them a YEAR to get the report out on a single shooter who acted alone.
The one thing that bothers me that has yet to be explained is the shotgun they say Lanza left in the trunk.
They claimed that Lanza used his .223 to shoot out the window. Unfortunately, sometimes a .223 round doesn’t play well with glass depending on the angle of the shot.
And if regular glass why not just use the butt of the rifle and pound the glass out?
I’ve yet to see a pic of the shot out glass were Lanza gained access to the school. Hopefully one will be in this report.
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