{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So, regarding police performance in this Uvalde school shooting\nYeah, sending handgun-armed patrolmen through a door to a room...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/685393938133155840/", "html": "<p>So, regarding police performance in this Uvalde school shooting</p><ul><li>Yeah, sending handgun-armed patrolmen through a door to a room with an assailant with an AR, believed body armor, and <strike>if he wrote all that manifesto about equipment</strike> <b>nope, wrong guy</b> presumably enough tactical sense to focus on the single entrance to the room presents such obviously low odds of success I can see competent judgement not choosing it</li><li>The officers on site had no body armor, no flashbang(-equivalents) to soften up an assault or smoke to mask it, and no long arms, which also means they had no ability to shoot the lock out of a door (and presumably didn&rsquo;t have a battering ram with them)</li><li>In that situation, &ldquo;confine and wait for specialized units&rdquo; would in fact be \u2013 reasonably! \u2013 doctrine</li><li>My mind can spin up ideas of i.e. covering one of those wheeled carts with textbooks and pushing it ahead as a bullet sponge, but that&rsquo;s after-the-fact, if they even got the door open I imagine the only practical immediate intervention would be to rush the room with 5 or more officers with the understanding 2 or 3 will be casualties</li><li>This would require <b>very</b> high officer morale and unit cohesion</li><li>I actually think the cop side might be correct in raising the issue of anti-police public sentiment, as a force degrading morale</li><li>&ldquo;We will fall short of your expectations until your opinion of us improves&rdquo; is a weird angle to try and work through</li><li>Historically America has at several times and places seen a less prominent role for the police.</li><li>Their functions are replaced with lynch law, mob rule, mercenary forces, gangs, and organized crime</li></ul>"}