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March 8, 2018, 08:24 PM | #1 |
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Parkland Shooting Time Line
For those interested, here is the time line of events.
https://media.local10.com/document_d...182_ver1.0.pdf Note that Peterson does not make entry and does not attempt to make entry. He remains outside of Building 12 where the shots are being fired for most of the event. In fact, even after reporting possible shots fired, he does things like ordering traffic control to shut down an intersection and even orders other officers NOT to approach buildings. He gives other direction as well, all of which has nothing to do with stopping the shooter. Long after the shooter is gone (shooting stops at just over 6 minutes), the order comes from Captain Jordan to set up a perimeter (just over 10 minutes).
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Thanks for posting this, DNS. It should answer a lot of questions.
Let's focus our discussion on the events and the LE responses to them, without digressing to accusations of cowardice, how these things are managed in other countries, etc. Quote:
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-My first take-away from reading the transcript is that at no time did BCSO ever intend to send officers inside until SWAT team responded. It does appears that at least 2 Deputies rejected this order and went in with CSPD. I would be furious if they received any discipline for this. This is a serious flaw in BCSO's critical incident response SOP in my opinion. As has been well discussed, set up a perimeter and wait for SWAT is not the standard LEOs are trained to with school shooters currently. -My second, and really most important, takeaway is pretty much what I already know. No matter how brave the Law Enforcement response, it is a gamble as to whether they will be there in time to actually stop a mass shooting and save lives. CSPD arrived about a minute after the shooting stopped, and just as the suspect was leaving. I personally know, from responding to calls (thankfully not a mass shooting such as this), that it is very rare for Law Enforcement to arrive in time to stop the crime. If we are lucky, and on a good day, we get there in time to catch the suspect(s) fleeing. Most of the time the damage is done at this point. This solidifies my stance on arming teachers. There are many lessons to be learned from this incident. I hope the FBI learned one as well...
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March 9, 2018, 10:32 AM | #4 |
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In this case, they were very lucky indeed to have caught the suspect. The timeline brings out just how long he stayed around. He was arrested roughly an hour after leaving the school, at a location just over a mile away -- even on foot, he could have traveled much farther from the scene, in which case he might easily still be at large.
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At 6 minutes into the shooting and before the shooting stops, Peterson again is giving traffic control directions to shut off an intersection. His focus and the control he exerts has absolutely nothing to do with stopping the shooter. What is interesting is that when the suspect is leaving the building that Peterson orders units to stay back 500 feet. In short, Peterson made all the wrong decisions about stopping the shooter, was occupied with other duties that were not in his purview as SRO, and his decisions likely contributed to the shooter escaping.
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Found an article reporting on this: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...309-story.html |
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Despite being 3 minutes behind BCSO (an eternity in an incident such as this), CSPD is the first to announce a suspect description (1 minute before BCSO gets around to it). You are correct in that Peterson is too busy trying to play incident commander, and BCSO's response may have fed off of him some. Which to be fair, it would not be uncommon for an agency to allow a School SRO command over an incident at that school until an administrative commander arrived on scene.
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Almost 10 minutes elapses after Peterson's first call before someone at the BSO seems to realize that it just might be important to prevent people—such as the suspect!—from leaving the school [Capt. Jordan at 14:33:04, "all the kids are getting out, but we need to shut down around this school"]. Quote:
It seems to me that the shooter didn't really have a coherent plan for what to do after he escaped, and that his failure to promptly get the heck outta Dodge, combined with some dumb luck by police, led to his apprehension. I could draw a parallel to Lee Oswald after the JFK assassination, assuming he was in fact the assassin, but let's not go there. Quote:
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March 9, 2018, 03:31 PM | #12 |
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I think that if there hadn’t had so many previous complaints about the shooter, he may have very well gotten away for some time.
But, that’s speculation on my part and we have no way of knowing. Actually is not relevant to this discussion anyway... just want to throw that thought out. On the topic at hand, no matter who did what, where and when as far as law enforcement goes, I’m deeply disappointed about this. I think someone at least attempting to engage the shooter would have made some difference. We traded our privacy and a lot of our rights so these things could be caught beforehand or stopped as they happen. To me, the shooter clearly wasn’t interested in dying that day, neither was the officer. Probably could have been stopped |
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I'm not a tactical expert for police response which is probably a good thing but rushing in when there is not active and ongoing shooting seems reasonable to a degree especially when an team from another force is clearing the area. |
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That said, of course we can. He was initially an active shooter, and the officers first on the scene, including Peterson, failed to follow current "best practice" in dealing with him as such. He discarded his weapon before leaving the building roughly six and a half minutes after the first reports of the incident, and at that point he stopped being an active shooter. The officers also failed to set up any kind of perimeter around the school during those six minutes. It's reasonable to suggest that if they had done so, they might have caught him long before they did. Their inaction both failed to stop him when he was an active shooter and gave him every chance of getting clean away once he stopped being one.
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Yeh - there may be a lot of nots in that sentence resulting in some odd ball triple negative.
I'm more than willing to criticize the SRO in this circumstance. Part of the job, in my non-qualified mind, of an SRO is going towards gun fire even if doing so seems to be somewhat suicidal. Your armed, your in a school of "innocent" children, and your job is to do whatever you can to stop the shooter immediately. I suppose this is the duty I prescribe to the first responding officer and, by nature of being there, the SRO qualifies. The rest of the responding officers... while I get the criticism you are trained to follow orders. This is a case of bad orders and bad training in my opinion and the failure does not fall onto the officers. I have not talked to any local officer who has said anything but "I'm going in" given the hypothetical situation. Around here though these are smaller forces due to the population and there is no such thing as "waiting for the SWAT" team because that team is a long ways away. I've talked to a handful of emergency medical responders and they have stated they are going in - around here it is not uncommon of them to be armed and have a CCW license. I'm not thrilled with the reaction of the responding officers but if they were given orders it is at least defensible. |
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Way back when I made my (based on personal training and experience) "I give the guy a pass"
we had very little knowledge of the actual situation ---as HE knew it--- and I am still leaning to a pass..as the more we know to more murky it is with protocol, training, certainly IN MY MIND ---cuz it is the way I am wired....I would have EVENTUALLY rushed in despite the protocol or training..BUT it still would have required a lot of better intel gathering... by my training For what it is worth... twice in my civilian life... after being a go in first Army guy---I was in what seemed to me an escalating situation.... I gathered up kids and wife and evacuated the areas ASAP Later that night to see on the news that it did indeed turn into a parking lot/resturant shooting OK ---not a good analogy, as I certainly was not, and am not a LEO.... but sometimes I wonder if I was the ONE guy there armed that could/should have taken action against the BG...before LEO arrived Answer is YES/Maybe..... but in that few moments my concerns were for me and MINE Each and every event is unique.... I agree the local leadership (LEO) need to be much better trained, armed, and damned near as capable as out best of the best Seal/Delta/Beret guys....and at least have a culture of selfless service |
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Lohman, I think we're pretty well in agreement here.
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A few different descriptions of the shooter are contained in that timeline. First he is wearing a hoodie, then its the ROTC burgandy shirt.
And there is plenty of witness interviews in the aftermanth that claim he wore body armor, and a helmet. But none of that is in the timeline, so, perhaps those eyewitness accounts were people who saw one thing but their brain processed it as something entirely different. Not uncommon.
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That response time is disappointing. That's not what I'd expect to see here if an officer was involved in an active shooting.
As already discussed, the response when they did show up was also lacking. |
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I have no LEO experience or training. My only means of relating to this is to reflect on times when I had to immediately respond to a co-worker freezing in the headlights during a stressful moment. Is this reaction from an LEO (which seems predictable in a firefight) part of active shooter training?
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My mistake then. Two minutes is more along what I'd expected. I think the time disconnect comes in between when the shooting started and when Peterson reported it.
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Lots of unknowns, hard to make honest to gosh judgements. From my experience, most resource officers are not the "cream of the crop" of their department. They generally have the SRO position because it is basically a "PR" position where your biggest challenge is a food fight in the cafeteria. You deal with truancy, in school conflicts and generally assist when there is a canine search of the building/grounds. You report to Human Services if and when there is suspicion of abuse. IOWs, there's a reason they are not on the SWAT team. Over the years, I have seen several different SROs, in different local districts and have thought to myself "God help them if they ever have a school shooting". This shooting may(and I hope so) change the perspective of those in charge, of what a SRO really should be. We also do not know the protocol the school/school district has on active shooters. My district says no-one is required to re-enter the building(teachers and staff), altho many of us would do what we had to do to save innocent children. The evidence that the SRO actively tried to take command of the situation and did so calmly and with authority, makes me think, that while I don't agree, he thought it was the right thing to do. One thing many folks don't know is, most Schools have fire-doors that close automatically, so folks cannot re-enter the building once the alarm goes off. Most times there is only one entrance that can be re-entered once the alarm is pulled/activated. Schools don't care about the ease of saving the building by firefighters, only how easy it is for folks to get out and how hard it is for them to get back in during an actual fire. That entrance could have also been a city block away from where the deputy was.
That said, the school has an enrollment of about 3200 students. It is a newer school with high national academic ratings and probably had many of the most widely used security protocols implemented. Being the size of a small town, most students there probably did not know the shooter by name, or even by sight. The shear size of the school meant he could have made it to the other side of the building and in the panic, no one would have even suspected him as long as he acted the same as everyone else. Coming out of a building, a city block away from where the shootings happened while blending in with the rest of the escaping student body, would have been easy. Odds are it took that hour for him to be positively identified. Odds are we will really never know why he just stopped shooting and walked away. I'm just glad he did. I'm not defending the deputy, only saying there are a lot of unanswered questions. I sit in school security meetings all the time. Teachers/staff claim they would act a certain heroic way every time and do so during drills. Funny tho, how when a real lock down is implemented for a legitimate reason, many of them act like deer in the headlights and are more concerned with calling their spouses on their cell phone, than thinking about the kids around them. The deputy has lost his job, his pension and his image. Odds are the best he can do after this is night security at Wal-Mart....if he's lucky. He will have to go over in his head everyday for the rest of his life if there was anything he could have done to save just one of those kids. It may be what he deserved, I don't know, but he didn't walk away unscathed. |
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Maybe I'm the only person who hasn't come across one, but can someone point me to a diagram of Deputy Peterson's position(s), the killer's positions, the layout of the buildings in which the shootings occurred?
Was he likely quickly able to identify where the shooting was occurring and didn't act to intervene?
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