While the police response to the shootings at Robb Elementary School have rightly received significant attention, this devastating report that was released last week (coordinated work between the Texas Tribune and The Washington Post) is, for anyone whose job it is to worry about such things, a must read.
The flawed coordination among police and medical crews echoes missteps during other mass shootings, despite the development of recommended practices after the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. In several of those cases, the communication problems resulted in delays in getting medical care for victims.
There seems a good question as to if several of those who died would have survived given better organized response.
What I find personally most appalling is that we practice and practice responses with children that have limited substantiation in making them safe, while the adults whose job it actually is to plan and coordinate...haven't, it appears. At least there.
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