Two decades of shooter response strategy ignored in Uvalde

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The bungled response by law enforcement to the massacre at a grade school in Uvalde, Texas, ignored two decades of active-shooter trainer that emphasizes confronting the gunman, experts say.

Amid the sounds of continuing gunfire emanating from the elementary school they waited. By the time they entered and killed 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, 19 children and two teachers were dead or mortally wounded.

from an investigative committee from the Texas House of Representatives that detailed the chaotic response.“You have to assume there are people in critical need of medical attention,” he said. “The terminology that we use when we train is, ‘You have to stop the killing before you can stop the dying.’”

As more officers arrived on scene, rather than acting as one overwhelming force to take down the shooter, they seemed to have little cohesion or leadership, said Maria Haberfeld, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. That’s largely because they were from multiple overlapping agencies who didn’t communicate effectively with each other, something she worries could happen again.

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