Time to Reestablish the Concepts of Duty and Accountability

[GURPS]

Kids are getting killed and you have a badge and a gun and you just sit there?


For an hour?

What the hell?

I’m trying to figure out the thought process and I can’t nail it down. Were they just listening to their Beto-donating boss? Were they tactically inept? Were they cowards?

Duty is a demanding mistress, which is why they call it “duty” and not “fun.” You get to walk around in your uniform with people thanking you for being a first responder, which is nice. You have to deal with the hassles of taking out society’s trash, certainly. And sometimes maybe you die.

Now, I’ve pointed out these obvious truths on Twitter in the wake of this black eye to law enforcement – and it is yet another one. After the defund-the-police fiasco drew skirmish lines between cop supporters and the cop haters, a lot of cops – too many – chose to comply with ridiculous COVID fascism. That lost cops a lot of friends, and they didn’t have too many to start with. Now the ruling caste is telling us we need to disarm because criminals are running rampant and to rely on the cops and then this disgraceful incident happens. Law enforcement, I’ve been a supporter since sheriff’s deputies sat around our kitchen table as my DA mom wrote them search warrants, but it's time you hear the truth: you are running low on friends, so maybe don’t alienate anyone else for a while.

Time to Reestablish the Concepts of Duty and Accountability

If we demand it from our ruling class, we can have it again.

townhall.com

 

[SamSpade]

I try to listen to all sides and despite what happened - I still can’t figure out just WHAT they were planning to do. He wasn’t robbing a bank or making demands. He was just killing children.

I’m still bewildered by them ALL being there - not doing anything - and it took Border Patrol to bust in and end it.

What did thry think waiting was going to accomplish?

 

[glhs837]

I try to listen to all sides and despite what happened - I still can’t figure out just WHAT they were planning to do. He wasn’t robbing a bank or making demands. He was just killing children.

I’m still bewildered by them ALL being there - not doing anything - and it took Border Patrol to bust in and end it.

What did thry think waiting was going to accomplish?

If I'm reading it right, the man in charge was, or will say he was, operating under the idea that the gunman wasnt killing kids, he just had them cowering in a corner while he shot holes in walls, that the kids were not being shot, therefore going in would have made the situation worse.

Me, I think he froze.

 

[phreddyp]

If I'm reading it right, the man in charge was, or will say he was, operating under the idea that the gunman wasnt killing kids, he just had them cowering in a corner while he shot holes in walls, that the kids were not being shot, therefore going in would have made the situation worse.

Me, I think he froze.

He had to be deaf then .

 

[SamSpade]

If I'm reading it right, the man in charge was, or will say he was, operating under the idea that the gunman wasnt killing kids, he just had them cowering in a corner while he shot holes in walls, that the kids were not being shot, therefore going in would have made the situation worse.

Me, I think he froze.

I'm assuming that by that time, they'd known he'd shot his own grandmother, had shot AT funeral home people outside and had shot at two police who were right behind him inside the school as he entered. He was already, clearly dangerous. If not for THAT, the several 911 calls INSIDE the school should have been proof enough.

Timeline does kind of show that Border Patrol busted in and shot him almost the moment they arrived.

I think you're right - this is small town police and they've never encountered this kind of thing.

 

[Ken King]

this is small town police and they've never encountered this kind of thing.

It was the school district's police force (it is like 6 people) and the Chief (that was the Incident Commander) went through active shooter training in Dec 2021. He was the one that declared it a barricaded subject event.

 

[Hijinx]

Duty and Accountability are fine, we need more of it in our military instead of putting rainbow bullets in a marine Helmet paying for Trannie operations and welcoming homo's into the ranks./

 

[SamSpade]

It was the school district's police force (it is like 6 people) and the Chief (that was the Incident Commander) went through active shooter training in Dec 2021. He was the one that declared it a barricaded subject event.

Didn't the news say something like, at one point, there were about 19 police inside the building at one point?

This might be slightly dated -

DPS releases detailed timeline of Uvalde school shooting

Here's a look at what the Texas DPS is now saying happened at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School on May 24

www.cbsnews.com

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

When one seconds count, the police are minutes away, and once they arrive, will take 90 minutes trying to figure out what to do, then someone else will take action.

 

[Ken King]

Didn't the news say something like, at one point, there were about 19 police inside the building at one point?

Yeah and from the way it looked on TV dozens more outside. But the one "calling the plays" was the Chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department. And his department has about 6 employees.