This the most comprehensive report available to the public on the Parkland event I’m aware of. Time lines, vids, 911 calls, maps, all of it. However FUBAR you may think it was, it was worse then that. The opportunities to stop that kid before it ever started, and or, greatly reduce the death toll, missed by the staff and LE, is staggering.
A must read:
Two decades after Columbine and five years after Sandy Hook, educators and police still weren’t ready for Parkland.
The only issue I see is that the people who really need to read this report will not because it, the truth, does not support their disarmament agenda.
Agreed. I have never seen a better example of the futility of gun free zones, relying solely on LE, etc than this event. At no time did the shooter face any resistance at all. He simply ran out of ammo, and walked out of the school. The school staff aside, the level of fail from the top down by that PD borders on criminal negligence, but I know that will never happen. Best we will see may be a house cleaning of the PD, and a focus on the tool used and the NRA.
Just reading it now but I’d like to point out Chris Hixon, and athletic director and campus monitor that was unarmed and charged Cruz down a hall way and paid for it with his life.
Something else bizarre is that idiot Peterson getting on the radio and telling other officers to stay back 500 feet.
The tragedy of someone observing this guy coming on to campus with a rifle case and essentially doing nothing about it allowed this to happen.
So you’ve got an armed shooter with a cased rifle coming on to a “Gun Free Zone” with no security or no one willing to enforce the security policies in place. It’s honestly surprising we haven’t had more of this.
I put this up in the other Parkland thread yesterday and feels it should be mentioned here too.
I also have difficulty wrapping my mind around the multiple times this could have been stopped starting with he first useless “security” sighting of the shooter walking onto campus with a rifle bag. No one said a damn thing to anyone else even though they called him the “crazy kid” and seemed to know of his history there.
Just started reading it, but they don’t even go over all the police calls to his house and the other disciplinary actions at school. What a complete cock-up.
Peterson is an un-indicted co-conspirator in this.
It’s insane, but people actually believe “gun-free zones” are exactly that - there’s no other rational explanation for it. It’s one thing to see him with a rifle case (and, honestly, how many “average” people would recognize it as such), it’s another to comprehend that someone could actually bring a gun into a place you’ve declared “gun free”. It’s all part of the growing disconnect between being ultimately responsible for one’s own safety and the idea that laws alone can protect us.
Peterson gets called out in the report for not recognizing the warning signs, in addition to him being assigned as SRO for a decade plus. Not having meaningful training/experience with the law enforcement aspect of a SRO can make someone go soft - add to this that many of the deputies interviewed don’t recall ever receiving active-shooter training. When I was in LE, the SRO jobs went to the guys at the end of their career because it was seen as an easy gig to wile away their last few years. It’s just dumb-luck that something didn’t happen at any of those places, because those guys would’ve been just short of useless (the ones I knew). I certainly hope that’s changed elsewhere, though it clearly didn’t in Broward.
I dunno. I know a few SROs who did it almost complementary to their gang enforcement assignments. In fact, it was a coveted position because you got bankers hours and could still do self initiated activity, plus court pay.
Granted this is not universal, but those officers tended to excel.
It’s not just having an officer, it is having a driven officer. Which is why patrol is such a good gauge of character. The people who cut a few tickets and dodge calls…meh whatever.
The guys who make cases and get something…some incentive and recognition keeps them motivated.
Like…anybody can have a bad day and talk mess but if it is a glorified babysitting job then just go post up on an interstate and hassle folks late to work.
But if you are looking at it like you want to know your kids and protect that damn school like it was your daughters cherry and you would have to die in a pile of hot brass after and only after knowing you pink misted columbine kid; then yeah you can be an SRO
Comprehensive … definitely, Damming… absolutely !!!
But look for articles on Parkland and all you’ll find is Louis CK hits…
The article might need to be read at your local School Board and PTA Meeting, that might make an impression at a local level that will likely institute some change in your area.
The problem seems to be getting the message out from anyone outside of the MSM who will and have slanted this event as an excuse to be anti-gun. Without people having access to factual articles like this the factual results are meaningless as they will simply be ignored.
BTW if you look at what Louis CK had to say, some of it was pretty damned relevant.
How do some of these people live with themselves after turning away and doing nothing? I’d rather die trying then live with the shame i would inevitably have.
Interesting read, thank you Will for sharing.
I haven’t read that any of them have taken a boat ride to the other side, so I can only assume they don’t have much of a conscience left. I can’t comprehend how I’d live with myself if I were them. 
Because society as a whole has abandoned morality. In the absence of morality we get school kids shooting their classmates and LEO’s refusing to stop them (since they are not “legally” obligated to do so).
Someone did an interview with Peterson a few months after Parkland and I don’t recall that he directly took any blame upon himself, but his wife said he kept reliving it, wondering what he could’ve done differently; ummm, pretty much anything/everything. If that didn’t cause him to transition himself over to the other side, then nothing will.
I doubt very much he “relives” anything.