After Uvalde, What Kind of Police Do Americans Really Want?

[mystery-ak]

After Uvalde, What Kind of Police Do Americans Really Want?
The average police officer is not the elite and dangerous warrior who can rush an armed assailant—and maybe should not be.
By Kyle Shideler
May 27, 2022

In the aftermath of the tragic active shooter incident in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were murdered, many are raising questions about police response following video footage of distraught parents pleading with police to charge into the elementary school. Reports indicate that the shooter was present in the school for at least 40 minutes before responding police shot and killed him.

Research on active shooters shows that Immediate Action/Rapid Deployment (IA/RD), a tactic by which law enforcement officers enter the area to engage and stop the threat before establishing a perimeter or reaching a critical mass, reduces (but by no means eliminates) casualties from mass shootings. This doctrine typically calls for the first arriving officers (the contact officer or team) to make an immediate solo entry and actively begin hunting the perpetrator.

In early reports, police officials said that the first officer on the scene did “immediately” follow the suspect, Salvador Ramos, into the school at which time gunfire was exchanged, but the perpetrator reportedly barricaded himself inside a classroom. An incident timeline provided by police suggests that the first responding officers were effectively suppressed by gunfire from the perpetrator, and fell back, at which point the gunman was able to enter the classroom, and “the carnage began.”

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https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/27/after-uvalde-what-kind-of-police-do-americans-really-want/

[The_Reader_David]

We want police who have a duty to protect innocent others and have a culture that values self-sacrifice in defense of the innocent over the "authority" of the police.

Both the failure at Uvalde and police shootings of innocents are a result of the SCOTUS removing any duty to protect from the role of police, giving them "qualified immunity" on top of they sovereign immunity the already enjoy and the resulting culture in police departments that values the lives and reputations of police officers over the lives of others.

[GtHawk]

remember the cops of the old TV shows, The Highway Patrol, The FBI, Dragnet, Adam-12? When the phrase 'To Protect and Serve' meant something, before departments felt there was to much liability involved and removed it from their cars and actions? When running into danger to protect children and others was the norm and not the exception? Yeah, that's the kind of police this American wants.

[Fishrrman]

I realize I'm a simple kind of guy, but it seems to me that police who conduct themselves as did the cops outside the Uvalde school did SHOULD be "defunded"...

As in...
FIRED.