{"id":124030,"date":"2024-01-19T03:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T03:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=124030"},"modified":"2024-01-19T03:34:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T03:34:32","slug":"justice-department-finds-unimaginable-failure-in-uvalde-police-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=124030","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Justice Department Finds \u2018Unimaginable Failure\u2019 in Uvalde Police Response&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/18\/us\/uvalde-school-shooting-report-doj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;A near-total breakdown in policing protocols hindered the response to the 2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/news-event\/shooting-texas-elementary-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">school shooting in Uvalde<\/a>, Texas, that left 21 people dead \u2014 and the refusal to rapidly confront the killer needlessly cost lives, the Justice Department concluded on Thursday after a nearly two-year investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department blamed \u201ccascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training\u201d for the delayed and passive law enforcement response that allowed an 18-year-old gunman with a semiautomatic rifle to remain inside a pair of connected fourth grade classrooms at Robb Elementary School for 77 minutes before he was confronted and killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cmost significant failure,\u201d investigators concluded, was the decision by local police officials to classify the incident as a barricaded standoff rather than an \u201cactive-shooter\u201d scenario, which would have demanded instant and aggressive action. Almost all of the officials in charge that day have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/24\/us\/uvalde-shooting-fallout.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already been fired or have retired<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLives would have been saved, and people would have survived,\u201d if officers had acted quickly to confront the gunman, Mr. Garland said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;A near-total breakdown in policing protocols hindered the response to the 2022\u00a0school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 people dead \u2014 and the refusal to rapidly confront the killer needlessly cost lives, the Justice Department concluded on Thursday after a nearly two-year investigation. The department blamed \u201ccascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124032,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124030\/revisions\/124032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}