DOJ Finally Issues Report on the Failures at Uvalde

Uvalde, Texas, and the mass shooting that took place there nearly 2 years ago, should stand as a monument to the fact that expecting the police to save you is nothing more than wishful thinking. From KXAN: New DOJ report finds ‘cascading failures’ in law enforcement response to Uvalde school massacre

The number one problem at Uvalde, Texas was that law enforcement didn't learn the lesson of Columbine. They treated the situation as a barricaded suspect with hostages, when they should have treated it as an active shooter. That was why they waited more than an hour, refused to let other law enforcement personnel enter the building, and even arrested parents, because that was more important that saving children.

Communication and leadership failures amongst police officials who responded to the mass school shooting in Uvalde contributed to the crisis, a new report from the U.S. Justice Department finds.

The DOJ report, released Thursday, bluntly asserts that if the response had been different, more children’s lives could have been saved in one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.

The local prosecutor is looking into pressing charges, but I don't think felony stupidity is a crime in Texas, but then I'm not a lawyer. The Supreme Court has said that cops have no duty to protect you, so that when they fail to protect you, you cannot sue. I don't know if this will mean you cannot charge them with a crime, or not. I guess we will find out.

KXAN is a TV station affiliated with NBC located in Austin, Texas, and they have had fairly complete coverage of the insanity that took place that day. State of Texas: DOJ report finds law enforcement failures during and after Uvalde school shooting

They point out in that 2nd article that the roughly 600 pages released on Thursday by the feds, doesn't really say all that much more than the 77 pages released by the State of Texas in July of 2022.

The document released by the Dept. of Justice can be found at this link. Critical Incident Review: Active Shooter at Robb Elementary School. That link is to the stub header. The link to the PDF can be found just below the first/only paragraph. Since it is a 600 page (or so) PDF with some images, you might not want to try and open it on your phone. Just sayin.'

I've only started to glance at it. It is 600 pages, that includes the requisite amount of government doublespeak, so I'm not sure if I will actually try to read the whole thing.

The report from the Texas legislature is more like 80 pages. Interim Report of the Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary Shooting of the Texas House of Representatives. That is the direct link to the 80 page PDF.

As several people have pointed out, the fact that you can't rely on the police won't stop the Left, or the gun-hating part of it anyway, from insisting that you MUST rely on police. Don't clutter the issue with facts.