Well, in a past life, I was a police officer in Oakland California. All departments differ in their chain of command, operating procedure, and rules and regulations. We were generally autonomous on the street. If we were involved in a situation, a late arriving beat Sgt. might offer after-incident suggestions, but would never micro-manage an arrest, etc. A Lieutentant or Captain would be a different situation. An onview situation, we would enter the bulding. If directed by radio, we would use our judgment as to what action to take...dispatchers have no line authority. and an admonition to hold up and wait for cover would be treated only as a suggestion.
Correct me if I am wrong, but an active shooter will turn his attention to a threat rather than his victims. Enter the building, announce your presence with gunfire. Take cover and defend yourself. If the active shooter is 11B trained, you are probably gonna have a bad day.
If current departments teach sit and wait techniques as we have seen in several shootings, well, that is unfortunate. We were very well paid on the OPD...we always figured that we were not being paid for what we do, but rather for what we MIGHT have to do.
The shooter supposedly was running amuck for a whole hour, right? In which case, he only killed 19 children? So I look at it this way, 19 children is basically just one classroom (and only killing the few adults reinforces that)
And then there were reports that he was locked in a room, right?
So what started as an active shooter, evolved into a contained shooter? For about an hour.
I dunno , that's just my imagination running wild...
Not counting the news outlets or websites along the full range of accuracy and veracity, I follow multiple actual individuals' handwritten blogs. (Bot news aggregators don't thrill me.) Looking them over, many are current serving or former military and a couple are some variation of high-speed low-drag elite forces ninjas. Or just funny as all. Because life without humor is just despair. So in other words, the same folks I trusted in the military not to wet the bed, sh*t themselves, or otherwise run around like headless Nancys, are the same folks I trust on the interwebz, for demonstrating pretty much the same trustworthiness and circumspectly responsible behavior. Color me shocked.
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Well, in a past life, I was a police officer in Oakland California. All departments differ in their chain of command, operating procedure, and rules and regulations. We were generally autonomous on the street. If we were involved in a situation, a late arriving beat Sgt. might offer after-incident suggestions, but would never micro-manage an arrest, etc. A Lieutentant or Captain would be a different situation. An onview situation, we would enter the bulding. If directed by radio, we would use our judgment as to what action to take...dispatchers have no line authority. and an admonition to hold up and wait for cover would be treated only as a suggestion.
Correct me if I am wrong, but an active shooter will turn his attention to a threat rather than his victims. Enter the building, announce your presence with gunfire. Take cover and defend yourself. If the active shooter is 11B trained, you are probably gonna have a bad day.
If current departments teach sit and wait techniques as we have seen in several shootings, well, that is unfortunate. We were very well paid on the OPD...we always figured that we were not being paid for what we do, but rather for what we MIGHT have to do.
A coward dies a thousand deaths . . .
The shooter supposedly was running amuck for a whole hour, right? In which case, he only killed 19 children? So I look at it this way, 19 children is basically just one classroom (and only killing the few adults reinforces that)
And then there were reports that he was locked in a room, right?
So what started as an active shooter, evolved into a contained shooter? For about an hour.
I dunno , that's just my imagination running wild...
cT (Carolina TURTLE)
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