it s monday july 18th. lawmakers have released a 77-page report outlining a series of missteps by multiple law enforcement agencies who responded to that school shooting at robb elementary school in may, including failures to adhere to their active shooter training and prioritizing the lives of the victims. the scathing report says authorities who responded to the scene displayed, quote, an overall lackadaisical approach. and while investigators say they didn t find evidence of malice, they did find, quote, egregious poor decisionmaking. the majority were from the u.s. border patrol and from the texas department of public safety. one texas state representative says the report contains difficult truths. it s hard to hear that there were multiple systemic failures because we want to tell ourselves that systems work. we want to tell ourselves there s one person we can point our fingers at. we want to tell ourselves that this won t happen again. that s just not true. what happe
texas. report states there was an overall lackadaisical approach to the shooting and no real law- enforcement command, despite many offices being on the scene. law-enforcement analysts reacted to the report. the widely accepted, widely trained approach to these active shooter incidents as the first responders on scene, whether it is the chief of police for the lowliest beat comp, grab the weapon that you have in your car, coordinate with whoever else is there with you. if you are by yourself then you go to the sound of the gun and try to take that shooter out. you try to kill that person before they can kill or hurt other victims. it is inexplicable that this massive team of law enforcement from multiple agencies with heavy body armor and long guns, ar 15s and eventually, multiple ballistic shields never took