have them armed there. change the police doctrine. they don t besiege a school, advance and eliminate that threat. leverage technology we did in frisco, texas 13 years ago. wire all classrooms and hallways with cameras and have the cities work with the school districts to make sure they can identify that threat, track that threat and eliminate that threat. democrats don t want to have that conversation. carley: in the senate there are bipartisan talks taking place, hope something positive can come from that. congressman, thank you for joining us this morning. thanks, carley and todd. carley: good to see you. president biden turning to late night tv to boost his approval numbers, teaming up with jimmy kimmel to trash republicans. president biden: our democracy will be in jeopardy, not a joke.
scandalous enough or problematic. to some critics. but now we found out that that person doesn t exist. when the gunman entered unimpeded. that s one level of very troubling developments that this public agency can get the story straight. now you can t rely on anything they re saying. more troubling is what you delved into deeply there, which is the 16 minute gap. because as you many people may know, after the columbine shooting in 1999, the doctrine or mass shootings really changed. because they waited too long. they decided in that incident. and most mass shootings happen really quickly. within 12 minutes most of the people are dead. so there s a police doctrine called immediate action rapid deployment. essentially holds that you should go in with whoever force you have, whoever is there with a gun, get in there and try to engage the shooter. and in fairness they did try to do that according to the latest count we have, but they were
official said the shooter arrived at the school and lingered outside for 12 minutes firing shots before he walked through an unlocked door. he said it was ten full minutes before any police arrived even though their station is a mile down the road. uvalde has a s.w.a.t. team trained on school shootings, but it s not clear if any of them responded. the official said some uvalde police officers immediately rushed in and engaged the shooter, that s important, but the shooter fired back with his assault rifle and some were hit and had to retreat. that s where we get to this confounding delay. the official said the police on the ground were asking for back up, heavy weapons, a negotiator. that s not what police doctrine has called for since columbine. current thinking is it s best to rush in with whatever force you have because most mass shooting victims die within the first minutes. instead as we know, it was more than an hour before a tactical team led by federal border patrol agents cond