From a thousand miles away, it looks like this community, its school system and police agencies were totally unprepared for this disaster which, by the way, was the work of the devil.
Now the lives of hundreds in this small community have been devastated forever. This is about as bad as it gets short of a nuclear exchange.
Every community has to get better training and tactics for such an event. Some communities have a good start already; in other communities liberals are opposed to school safety, or think school safety is just free condoms.
Every policeman needs to have an honest conversation with himself and ask: Do I have what it takes to be in this line of very dangerous work? There is no shame in leaving the force and pursuing a different career.
Many small communities with scaled back police departments. My little town has maybe two officers on duty at a time, armed with sidearms, hard to approach someone shooting at you with a rifle if there is much distance between them.Every body talks about all the cops standing around but who was in charge calling the shots, who was the coordinating officer telling them where they needed to be. Lot of information we don’t know