Parkland Deputy Told Cops to Stay Away During Shooting

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



A Broward County sheriff’s deputy who resigned amid public outrage for failing to enter a Florida high school during a mass shooting last month reportedly told other police officers to stay out of the building as well. According to radio dispatches released Thursday, the deputy, Scott Peterson, reportedly told fellow officers to make sure “no one comes inside the school,” even as calls flooded into 911 call centers about the chaos inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed. Despite publicly claiming he believed the gunfire was coming from outside the school, Peterson can be heard in the radio dispatches saying the gunfire was inside the building, the Miami Herald reports. Nonetheless, he told officers to “stay at least 500 feet away at this point,” a command which a dispatcher then relayed to other police officers. It wasn’t until 11 minutes after the shooting began that police officers finally entered the building, a fact that has brought new scrutiny to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office’s handling of the massacre, which is already under review by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

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[Ligyron]

1. The CT gun nutz will say, "of course he did".

He was a deep state actor who wanted to make the carnage worse in hopes of getting tougher gun legislation passed.

You just watch...

[groundloop]

2. It's easy for macho-men gunners to second guess someone after the fact

99 percent of them would be hiding behind a tree and shitting their pants if bullets were flying.

[MichMary]

3. "Active Shooter Protocol"

Look it up. It's a real thing. And it involves LEO going to the sound of gunfire in order to mitigate the death and destruction.

Cruz was allowed 11 minutes to wreak havoc on unarmed students and staff, while the people whose job it was to protect them stood around with their thumbs up their asses waiting til it was over to just write up a report, or something.

[MichMary]

4. Here is a link to a 60-page document regarding

what the police response to an active shooter situation SHOULD be:

http://www.policeforum.org/assets/docs/Critical_Issues_Series/the%20police%20response%20to%20active%20shooter%20incidents%202014.pdf

Columbine brought about a sea change in police
tactics. “Contain and negotiate” may be appropriate
for hostage incidents or situations where a person is
barricaded in a room and unable to harm victims.
But it is not appropriate for active shooter incidents.
Columbine resulted in new approaches in which
patrol officers are being trained to respond to active
shooters as quickly as possible.

This is from the article posted in the OP:

BSO policy calls for deputies to engage an active shooter and eliminate the threat.

The bottom line here is that the guy didn't do his job. Whether he could have saved any lives isn't known, but what is known is that he never even tried.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. A couple years ago, I had a required training seminar

that pretty much said the same as what you indicated. It included a video as illustration. Essentially in active shooter situations, LEO are trained & instructed to "neutralize" (their term) or "take out" (my term) the "threat" (shooter). The video gave various scenarios of how the employees should react/shelter when such a situation was going on based on where they were in relation to the potential shooter(s), including remaining in or sheltering in a room, barricading the door, and staying down under/behind desks other objects to wait for further instructions.

[MichMary]

6. Yup

At Columbine, LEO set up a perimeter, as they had been trained to do. What that meant was that Harris and Klebold had more than a half hour to roam the school and murder at will.

Columbine was analyzed six ways to Sunday, and the end result was the protocols that were in place--and ignored--in Parkland.

I really don't understand how Peterson has garnered so much support from people here. He had a job to do, and he didn't do it.

[Spouting1horn]

11. OK tough guy

I want to see you go in with a 9mm against a fully automatic AR-15.

[Merlot]

12. A Law Enforcement Officer is paid to do just that.

[MichMary]

13. I'm not a law enforcement officer

I haven't been trained, and have never even touched a gun. So your whole post is irrelevant.

Why train officers to do anything, if they are just going to flip out and do nothing when they have to do their jobs?

This isn't that hard--Peterson had a job to do, and he didn't do it.

[Paladin]

14. Now you did it. You used the "fully automatic" term.

Pro-gunner vocabulary enforcers, in-coming in 10, 9, 8..........

[AtheistCrusader]

18. It's in the job description, sorry.

If it's all you have, you go in with a fucking toothbrush, but you still go in.

But that aside (and misidentification of the weapon aside), it's one thing to fail to respond yourself, but quite another to discourage others from acting in response as well.

That is quite the interesting finding. Bit of a record-scratch sound as you read through the various narratives of the response.

[irisblue]

19. Did you mean to sound hostile?

[UpInArms]

7. This is what happens when you have a good guy(s) with a gun

The tragedy continues to be worse than we knew ...

[B2G]

8. I take issue with the assertion that he was 'good'. nt

[MichMary]

15. +1

It isn't an easy job, which is why not just anyone should have it.

[JI7]

20. That's why we need to do away with guns

We can't ever be sure until something happens.

[inwiththenew]

9. Total failure

As has been pointed out the book has been written on how to deal with an active shooter since Columbine. This will probably be another case study in law enforcement training. Unfortunately it seems like these lessons need to be written in blood.

[Nash Teeth]

10. Another angle for victims' families' lawsuits-- training

The dept was responsible for providing training related to the active shooter protocol.

[MichMary]

16. Supposedly,

there had been training. I wonder how much training there was.

[AzureCrest]

17. I see three primary issues:

1 - Training as you have stated

2 - Personnel decision - who decided to assign this deputy at the school

3 - Leadership - who was making decisions regarding whether to enter the building; and when.