Creator of FBI's active shooter protocol rips Uvalde cops for 78 minutes of inaction

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Brad Reed

Katherine Schweit, a retired FBI agent who created the agency's active shooter protocols on Monday ripped police in Uvalde, Texas for apparently failing to follow the procedures they were trained to enact.

Writing in the New York Times, Schweit says it's clear now that police in Uvalde did not follow the protocols she developed that recommended quick action to take down active shooters.

In particular, she singles out the "the 78 minutes that the police in Uvalde waited before confronting the gunman at Robb Elementary," and then asks, "Why did the police leadership make that call?"

While Schweit doesn't have a direct answer to that question, she does note that the police can't say they didn't receive proper guidance for how to handle these situations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/creator-of-fbi-s-active-shooter-protocol-rips-uvalde-cops-for-78-minutes-of-inaction/ar-AAXSWm1

I Created the F.B.I.’s Active Shooter Program. The Officers in Uvalde Did Not Follow Their Training.

After watching the tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, unfold after so many other shootings in recent weeks, I’m wondering what I might have missed when I was asked to start the F.B.I.’s active shooter program 10 years ago. Did I have my team focus on the wrong problems? Did I spend my budget wisely to find ways to save lives?

Every shooting is evaluated in three parts: How could we have prevented the shooting? Did we respond effectively to save lives? How are we helping the community recover? Last Monday, the F.B.I. designated 61 shootings in 2021 as active shooter attacks, up from 40 in 2020 and 30 in 2019. We aren’t preventing the shootings, I realized. Perhaps, I thought, we were doing better in responding to the attacks as they unfolded.

But if the 78 minutes that the police in Uvalde waited before confronting the gunman at Robb Elementary are any indication, the answer is: We aren’t. Waiting so long, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety said Friday, “was the wrong decision. Period.”

So why did the police leadership make that call?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/i-created-the-f-b-i-s-active-shooter-program-the-officers-in-uvalde-did-not-follow-their-training/ar-AAXSvvU

[C Moon]

1. If it had been an upper class private school, you can bet they would have been in there.

[Hav]

2. You think the same cops that feared to go in

would instead go in to save the kids of rich parents? That makes no sense. Some of the cops' kids were in that school when the massacre happened.

[Ms. Toad]

3. It wouldn't have been the same cops guarding the rich kids' school. n/t

[Hav]

5. It would have been the same local police force

It was an individual failure in leadership and they were cowards. But you won't find a bigger incentive to risk something than your own kids being in that school.
But the point is that it's so weird to add such a lazy narrative to the tragedy needlessly and without any basis. More importantly, it doesn't address the actual failures that occurred.

[maxsolomon]

4. Is there even an upper class private school in Uvalde?

The officer who ordered the wait was Hispanic. He fucked up, big time.

It's not always Race & Class.