The federal review of the law enforcement response to the Uvalde shooting will likely focus on the school police chief’s order to delay sending officers into the classrooms, experts say.
The Department of Justice has not yet said who will conduct the Uvalde review, and declined to comment on its plans.
Completed reviews become crucial documents for American law enforcement, providing lessons on how police should prepare for and respond to mass shootings. In recent years, these reviews have called for tougher and more realistic training done jointly with multiple local agencies, more care in where arriving officers park their cars at the scene, the creation of multiagency command posts, better organized family-reunification centers and more attention to the mental health needs of officers.
“This one does cry out for a real thorough investigation,” said Dan Oates, who led the local police response to a 2012 movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, and recently came out of retirement to serve as Aurora’s interim police chief. “The public needs to know. The community needs to know what occurred. And the law enforcement community needs to learn whatever lessons there are from this event.
“If you approach it as seeking blame then everyone will clam up,” said Jim Bueermann, who ran the National Policing Institute — then called the National Police Foundation — when it was hired by the Department of Justice to conduct reviews of the San Bernardino and Orlando shootings.
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