I find it funny cops can break into someone's house and kill them even if the warrant they got isn't for said person...but they can't go into a school to protect kids from an active shooter until they get the key.
I thought cops put their life on the line every day and that was why we needed them...im sure the parent who begged the cops to go in and then found out their child died feels safe?
I bet this gets almost no traction though. No media outlet is going to dare destroy the cops for their culpability. Cops did the same thing during the Parkland shooting...
The examples of cops refusing to do anything are all over any number of these mass shootings. Law enforcement waited 60 minutes before confronting the Las Vegas shooter, and by the time they did decide to enter the hotel room it had been 30 minutes since he stopped firing and had presumably been dead that long. This despite the fact they identified the room he was in in minutes, and were on that floor and could hear the gunfire continue.
Anymore I am almost startled at how cowardly many in law enforcement are. I am not advocating for some Rambo like charge and putting yourself in danger with no possible benefit (the benefit being fewer kids get killed EVEN IF YOU PAY WITH YOUR LIFE. THAT IS WHAT YOU WERE HIRED TO POSSIBLE HAVE TO DO.) But these cops are all allegedly highly trained, well armed, armored up (other than first who arrive on a scene, but other than the armor when they climb out of their cars the other elements are the same) and hired to protect and serve. Many are ex-military with training that is designed to give them the skills and tactics necessary to confront active shooters.
The examples of cops behaving heroically are there, for sure. But I can point to just as many examples of civilians behaving heroically, like jumping into a cold lake to save someone from drowning, or rushing into a house with smoke pouring out of it to usher out a kid or a disabled person. These are people who never decided to make it their profession to protect others.
A friendly aquaintence of mine who I used to play beer league hockey with is (or was, we've lost touch since it has been a decade since I lived in IN) a cop. About a decade ago there was an active shooter at a grocery store in his town in northern Indiana. When the call came in he and a fellow officer arrived at the scene, compared all the information they had and the two of them entered the store, without any more hesitation than to briefly decide on a plan of action. The shooter was still inside, still firing. He had already shot mutliple people, killing two of them when he was located by my friend and his colleague. They engaged the shooter, and one or both of them managed to hit him with mutliple rounds, stopping him. The suspect eventually died. Had they not done what they did, he absolutely would have injured or killed more people. When cops do that, we should appreciate them, and recognize that not everyone is wired for that kind of action.
Were it that these kinds of events were so rare that no one could anticipate of even figure out how to plan for them, I could almost see a hesitation (a small hesitation, not 30 or 60 minutes) in preparing for what to do. But by now, don't you think they should have figured out what to do?
