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Thats too many people on a scene. it just creates more confusion. if you dont have a specific role, you dont need to be there. somebodys got to coordinate whats happening inside the building as well as outside. thats why you have incident command. thats why you have a command post established. none of that took place. so, you know, the resident of uvalde, im glad to hear that they are speaking up. they deserve answers, and they deserve action. i would have fired arredondo a long time ago. i dont...

Theres too many people on a scene, it just creates more confusion. if you dont have a specific role, you dont need to be there. somebodys gotta coordinate whats happening inside the building as well as outside. thats why you have incident command. thats where you have a command post established. none of that took place. so, you know, the residents of uvalde, im glad to hear that they are speaking up. they deserve answers, and they deserve action. , well i wouldve fired arredondo a long time ago....

According to the report, the school police chief wrote the active shooter policy for the school. he wrote his name as the incident commander. and then at the didnt take the role on the ill-fated day on may 24th. according to the report, he even chose the administration office to be the command post. but, again, according to the report, he did not take that role. this role goes on to say that hundreds of police officers responded, hundreds of police officers that were also trained in active shoot...

Reading -- my first read of the report is that failure of anyone coming forward sort of bred more and more failure to come forward. in other words there was a belief this was the kind of situation that were in. that structural failure from the get-go, and to reiterate what andrew was saying, this is like policing 101. its literally you cant get past day one without understanding an incident command and the need for a command post. so they dont have that structure, and so theyre all just sitting ...

We can rethink architecture and structure, what happened because that original breakdown, once again, cannot be overcome over the course of an hour. no one asserts the command post, no one asserts incident command and nobody says this is broken. this is absolutely broken. all of those things might be fixed by greater integration rather than 30, 20, whatever jurisdictions showing up at this small community. thats one of the takeaways we should consider, are they too small and the training is not ...

There should have been some coordination between all of them, how do we work together. who is doing what? what kind of resources do we have? what are the tools that we have? is that what you are talking about? >> yes. so this is actually a very well communicated and understood system all across the country. the incident command system, ics, and its established and organized and put out and trained by dhs. and that is the acceptable way of responding to any incident in any place with any group of...

>> yeah. a command post would have been established outside. >> of course. that incident commander, which in this case would be arredondo because he owns the turf. he is the school police chief, by default he would be the incident commander, but he has the ability to delegate tactical command and things like that to other people. once bortac arrives -- >> whats bortac. >> the border patrol swat team, heavily armed agents. it would be almost expected they would take over the tactical planning and...

Committee, senior law enforcement official said there was no command, incident command inside. but there was no incident command outside either. so basically, no one was in charge. it was a free-for-all. >> yeah. a command post would have been established outside. >> of course. and that incident commander, which in this case would normally be arredondo, because he owns the turf. he is the school police chief. we are in a school. so by default he would be the incident commander. but he has the ab...

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