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Incident command and an incident command post. you cannot overcome that deficiency, and that's what you basically see. one of the reasons why people are trained in incident command over and over again, even nonfirst responders but people who are trained in it over and over again you don't know what will happen. that structure lets you maneuver, be flexible, make decisions in real time. and, therefore, you don't have to -- you don't have to re-create the wheel. and what they did, they threw out the wheel. we don't know why. we don't know what led to that. they cannot overcome that original deci...

Play. so you could have 20 jurisdictions who have never met each other before. if you have an incident command post, an incident commander, they are directing what is going on and, of course, trying to figure out what the communications are telling them. so my read of the report right now is that initial failure essentially an architecture failure, they didn't set it up, made everyone believe that they were in a barricade situation rather than an active shooter situation. i'm not defending it but that's clearly what the time line is telling us. so you have hundreds of people who have nowhere t...

A school and kills 19 children with a military style weapon. and i say that not simply because of that issue but because the thing he deprives us of is time. there's no time. so you have to respond very quickly. and what becomes clear from the report is that after three minutes, when law enforcement arrives and the failure to set up an incident command system or even a physical incident command post creates so much chaos and confusion including, as rosa was saying, the belief this was a barricade situation rather than an active shooter one, that original failure of process, failure of architec...

Training not only of pete arredondo but all the officers that were there on that ill-fated day who knew better that once the gunman started firing shots, that training should have kicked in. they should have gone into that room to save those children and the teachers. and this report specifically says that none of these officers, hundreds of them, seized that opportunity to then take charge or create an incident command post or do something other than sit and wait. i want to continue reading from the report because it says, quote, in particular the locking mechanism to room 111 was widely know...

Kingston Police Insp. Greg Sands in the force's Incident Command Post on Thursday.