I can’t seem to find a timeline of when the cops receive the initial call and when they arrived on scene.
Don’t expect to get the truth. The police have morphed into well-armed and nattily dressed frauds who only “serve and protect” themselves. How effective were cops at Columbine or Parkland? They stood around and looked ferocious and just let kids just die.
Today’s cops are protected by their union - and they aren’t even close to being like our armed forces. The whole point of their career is getting home, not saving lives.
It keeps changing, and funny, they haven’t released tapes of the 911 calls. If the shooter was taking shots at the funeral home (and other targets) for 12 minutes before entering the school, it’s certain that the local 911 call center lit up like a Christmas tree. That would be enough to send every available cop to the scene, and in a town of 16,000—at that time of day—they should have arrived on the scene in less than five minutes.
And sadly, it looks like most of the local cops were more concerned about securing the perimeter than entering the school and taking out the bad guy. This same “regional director” said today that calls went out for additional weapons, body armor and hostage negotiators (you read that right), as kids were being slaughtered in the classroom. If the director is right, the Uvalde police department didn’t have enough weaponry to go after the bad guy, and no one could find someone with a master key to open the door. Never mind the fact that the principal had one, as did the assistant principal, janitor and (likely) several teachers.
If you buy that story about the key, I can give you a great deal on a bridge in Brooklyn.
Many points of the timeline were discussed on War Room this morning — Steve Bannon and Bernie Kerick. This 12-minute interval was included. The whole segment was interesting.
Regardless, you can’t count on the police to save your or your children’s lives.