Parkland Event, THE comprehensive report

[WillBrink]

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.

http://projects.sun-sentinel.com/201...V7cn1nFCGF4mLI

[flenna]

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.

http://projects.sun-sentinel.com/201...V7cn1nFCGF4mLI

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.

[WillBrink]

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.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

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.

[flenna]

Something else bizarre is that idiot Peterson getting on the radio and telling other officers to stay back 500 feet.

[Averageman]

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.

[Vandal]

I put this up in the other Parkland thread yesterday and feels it should be mentioned here too.

The Sun Sentinel dropped this gem today. Sheriff Scott Israel: Big Talker, Disasterous Response In Parkland Shooting

TLDR version: The Sheriff still believes that he and his agency really did nothing wrong both at Parkland and the airport shooting event that preceded it. He constantly passes off the blame to deputies on scene, accepting no responsibility himself.

"As I’ve said before, I’ve done nothing wrong,” he said. “I’m not considering resigning or anything like that. I will remain the sheriff as long as the people of Broward County want me.”" - BSO Sheriff Scott Israel.

[Vandal]

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.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

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.

[sundance435]

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.

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.

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.

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.