TX DPS clarifies procedures for active shooter: 5 cops face investigation

The Texas Department of Public Safety has released their guidance as to how they want law enforcement to handle active shooter threats, and it certainly isn't the way they did it on May 24th in Uvalde, Texas

In the Uvalde massacre at the Robb Elementary School, DPS officers made up some of the reported 376 law enforcement agents from a number of agencies that responded to the school shooting. It was revealed Tuesday that five of those DPS officers will face an investigation to determine if they violated any policies in the response and weigh potential disciplinary action.

The newly clarified DPS instructions were included in a letter from July. It requires officers to treat anyone who fires a weapon at a school as “an active shooter until he is neutralized.” It also says that officers are to never treat an active shooter as a "barricaded subject." This is what happened during the school shooting in which the shooter was in an unlocked classroom [with terrified kids] and the cops treated it as if he was barricaded alone on there as he shot children one-by-one. 

The contents of the clarified instructions was provided by KVUE investigative reporter Tony Plohetski.

The July letter states that officers have been instructed that anyone who fires a weapon at a school "remains an active shooter until he is neutralized." That person can never be treated as a "barricaded subject." 

Uvalde students returned to school on Tuesday, somewhat later than usual as the district is beefing up security measures at all campuses, or as many see it: "closing the barn door after the horses escaped." Why does it take a tragedy before anything gets done? Why couldn't Biden allocated the money he gave to Ukraine and used it as a national security measure for American students and by doing so he would be making America great again.

Anyway, the district installed 8-foot non-scalable fencing and added security cameras. And while they will not arm teachers, they will at least get a nice video of anyone who would commit acts of violence on our children and teachers.

Aside from the obvious cowardice of the leadership of law enforcement at the Uvalde shooting, DPS and the federal government have launched investigations as to what else went wrong and how law enforcement can respond as if they had balls in the future.

“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” said DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley. “The review will be conducted with the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing.”

Law enforcement officials have faced continued criticism for their cowardly failures in their response to the active shooter threat. Officers responding to the shooting at Robb Elementary School waited outside the classroom for over an hour as the 18-year-old lone gunman murdered children and teachers inside. One cop even grabbed a cup of water from the fountain in the hallway as the shooter kept killing kids in the classroom just down the hall.

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Former Uvalde CISD Chief Pete Arredondo, who was one of the first officials on scene after the shooter entered the school, was fired by the Uvalde school board late last month and the community broke out into spontaneous applause. He needs to retire and perhaps raise a few cats--they have so much in common.

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