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Originally Posted by Zulu29
Sigh...LVPD received accolades because of their heroism in removing as many citizens as possible from an active shooter, as well as confronting the same active shooter in his stronghold.
Your criticism of SWAT is misguided. I can guarantee you, that minutes after the shooting began, SWAT was activated. In a situation such as that, they would still need to group the team who would likely be roving all over the city if they are a full time team which I'm assuming they are. Then they would quickly gather intel from the hotel/security/general duty police officers to determine what they were dealing with (number of assailants, location, weapons, whether the stronghold is barricaded or not, etc). With that information they then formulate their plan of action. Deploy the team and arrive at the stronghold. They deploy their breachers and use explosive forced entry to gain access to the room. The assaulters enter and find the guy down. All this takes time and quite frankly 45 minutes from beginning of incident to the time they arrive at the room may sound like a long time but given the chaos and unique situation it's really not.
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Believe what you like. I have this from law enforcement on the ground in the middle of the incident. It was a cluster #### from the word go. Not a completely unexpected outcome based on events, but the response was poor. But that's okay. Law enforcement can screw up too, especially under incredible pressure. That's part of the problem that people have with their perceptions of cops. They think they are infallible super heroes when most of them are just average to below-average Joes forced into ridiculous situations that no could be prepared for. They do an incredible job and get shat on for it for the most part. But it is okay to say when they could have done better. You know, just like the government could have responded better to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of the hurricane. It was not all sunshine and rainbows. The only thing that prevented more carnage was the shooter blowing his own brains out, not the action of the police or SWAT.