UPDATE: Col. Kurt says this means the elite can't trust the police either. He says "thirty cops," but that was the figure from The Terminator that was supposed to be comforting until Arnold showed up. There were almost four hundred cops in and around that building in this case.
376 disease spreading flies for one piece of shit....
ReplyDeleteDraft said flies into the Military since they have a shortage, use em as cannon fodder, end the affliction on our country, we can do better being armed citizens.
This is why I no longer work, so I pay as little as little as possible, to starve the beast
and Grim, I do not care about your biog fat govt pension either
Let the whole rotten edifice crumble and go to pieces
sucks to be you!
I don’t know what kind of a pension you think I’m due, whoever you are, but I don’t expect to see any more government pension funds than I do payments for the Social Security I’ve been contributing to all my adult life. It was always obvious that the plan was to run out of money just about the time what they owed me came due.
ReplyDelete@ Anonymous - sounds like a rationalisation. Maybe not, but you might want to be aware that this is what those around you will likely conclude.
ReplyDeleteAs for that many officers in place, I have to wonder if this contributed to the inertia. It quickly became the group norm to just stand there and discuss what to do, because all the other professionals were doing that. If there had been only a few there with no hope of immediate reinforcement, they might have been more likely to act.
Having been trained in the Incident Response System, I can say that this shouldn't have happened even if that may be how it happened. The first responder on the scene is supposed to immediately establish and assume command, and serves as the Incident Commander until command is formally handed over (usually to someone more experienced who shows up later, but it could be to another agency if they are more obviously the responsible ones but not the first responding one).
ReplyDeleteSomeone should have been in command and issuing positive orders from the first minute anyone arrived.
Yup. That is how it works in physical emergencies in a hospital as well. First one there is in charge until formally handing it over. It's a good method, even though no method is bulletproof.
ReplyDeleteMany things shock me about the Uvalde response, but the weirdest one to me is the determined vagueness about who was in charge. Arredondo gives the impression that he thinks it makes sense to defend himself by claiming he didn't think he was in charge. The defense itself takes the form of an admission that is criminally negligent in its own right. There's no such thing as not believing you're in charge while not establishing who is. It's as if Arredondo were too shocked by the horrible events to carry out his most basic duty of either giving or taking orders--and was unconsciously hoping that if he simply froze, the situation would magically resolve itself on someone else's authority and at someone else's mortal risk.
ReplyDeleteThat's true of anyone on scene, and even more so of a guy who was at least eligible to be in charge and in fact acted so as to mislead others into thinking he was. In a harsher age he'd have been court-martialed and shot.
It's a valuable object lesson for those of us who suspect that we, too, might be so shocked by so many dead children and our own unbearable guilt that we might more or less sit in a corner perseverating over something like keychains for a solid hour.