baltimore police commissioner. nice to have you with us. i know you have been following this from the very beginning. i want to start with d.o.j. said. quote, the goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare and to respond to active shooter events. we ve seen these types of reviews before in pulse, in san bernardino. where do they ultimately lead, though? they re going back and they re looking at the incident from beginning to end. but ultimately, we ve learned our lessons at columbine. we ve learned that you don t have time to waste, that you ve got to get in there. so with this investigation, i really don t know what will be gained. i feel that this is more of an effort to play hot potato with failure and stall. we know that there are answers that the public, these poor parents, everyone deserves right now. so the federal governm
we know that there are answers that the public, these poor parents, everyone deserves right now. so the federal government, glad they re involved, but that should not stop them from answering the questions that they are being presented. and now there are more questions this morning because the, curiously, the new york times is reporting the officers were trained to respond to an active shooter type situation two months ago. how does that change the scope of things, in your mind? well, i would if the d.o.j. is looking at this, it s the training is the training they went through sufficient? you can t just have a table top training for active shooter. you ve got to put the officers, put the teams into positions where they re actually doing real scenarios where they re hearing gunfire, where they are having to stack up together, having to practice entry of a