lives? reporter: ryan, in the report it does mention a few lines about why officer waited. it states they were waiting for the keys. they were waiting for more equipment. but let me take you through it because there are very telling details we did not know before reading this report. according to this report chief pete arredondo actually wrote the active shooter policy. he wrote in himself as the incident commander but, according to this report, he didn t take on that role on that ill-fated day. it says that he not only didn t take the role, he didn t transfer command of the scene to any other officer which, according to this report, could have been done in this case in this jurisdiction. now the report is much broader than this. it does not just point the finger at arredondo. it also says that there were hundreds of police officers who responded to the scene, and it points out those trained police officers then did not question that command. they didn t question that there
points out those trained police officers then did not question that command. they didn t question that there was no incident commander, that there was no incident command post when in the policy that arredondo wrote it specifically states he wrote in there the administration office was going to be the incident command post but, of course, none of that happened, and hundreds of police officers responded to the scene and the training didn t kick in. that s what this report says, that it s a vast failure among various law enforcement agencies responding with hundreds of police officers responding and instead of actually acting on their training, what they did was sit and wait. i want to read from the report. it says at robb elementary law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their