400,000 children killed in Iraq in the 1990s, and the late Madelyn Albright said that that was somehow "worth it". Probably a thousand or two kids were killed in Mariupol, something like 70 in Bucha that are known of so far - and the ones shot down in Bucha were up close and personal, too. So there's that. In Uvalde, the cops hung around outside for an hour, waiting for the SWAT team to show up - and the cops
I think it depends largely upon the department as far as expectations regarding whether they move in immediately during an active shooter situation. When I was a police officer, our chief made it explicitly clear to us that we would move in quickly to gain a foothold on the interior of the building and attempt to direct people outside the building, gleaning intelligence on description and whereabouts of the shooter(s), and passing to follow-on units to coordinate the assault. We treated it very much like a military urban combat environment. Our chief said very bluntly that anyone who hesitated to make entry would be disciplined, because the expectation of us was to put an end to the situation as rapidly as possible. This was also in Texas. Therefore, making a blanket statement about all law enforcement entities as if they are all the same is not helpful, much the same as the fact that it's not helpful to make a blanket policy about all shooting situations as if they're all the same. There is always nuance.
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯... heartbreaking.
I think it depends largely upon the department as far as expectations regarding whether they move in immediately during an active shooter situation. When I was a police officer, our chief made it explicitly clear to us that we would move in quickly to gain a foothold on the interior of the building and attempt to direct people outside the building, gleaning intelligence on description and whereabouts of the shooter(s), and passing to follow-on units to coordinate the assault. We treated it very much like a military urban combat environment. Our chief said very bluntly that anyone who hesitated to make entry would be disciplined, because the expectation of us was to put an end to the situation as rapidly as possible. This was also in Texas. Therefore, making a blanket statement about all law enforcement entities as if they are all the same is not helpful, much the same as the fact that it's not helpful to make a blanket policy about all shooting situations as if they're all the same. There is always nuance.