Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and officers waited on opposite sides of the door.
    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      121·
      2 years ago

      Ah, so they aren’t getting the protection they need but they are getting the protection they deserve.

      • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
        142·
        2 years ago

        Politics are more complicated than that. Nobody deserves to have their children murdered because of their mistakes, even if it’s an expected outcome.

  • TechyDad@lemmy.world
    78·
    2 years ago

    All too often, the police act like wannabe Rambos - charging in with guns drawn, willing to shoot or kill any suspects in their way. The ONE time that this might have been welcomed and they decided to sit on the side and do nothing. Okay, maybe not nothing. They harassed parents who were screaming about their kids being killed.

    • whofearsthenight@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      I would have a hard time coming up with a singular more salient reason to defund the police than Uvalde.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
    212·
    2 years ago

    I’m still stunned. Shooter massacres kids and this nation does nothing. Again. Unreal but unfortunately not unexpected.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      103·
      2 years ago

      The UK jumped into action the moment they had their first school shooting. The US got mad at anyone who suggested we do anything. And still does.

      So much so that even then President pisses their panties if they have to even mention the word firearms.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 years ago

    Given what we’ve seen with cops, given their fights that have made it to the Supreme Court where they argued successfully that they have no duty to protect and serve the public, I’d say the cops did follow their Active Shooter Protocol.

  • Eigerloft@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 years ago

    Cops not following their training?! What the? Who could have possibly foreseen such a thing?! This is completely and utterly shocking! I am absolutely flabbergasted by the news that cops don’t follow rules that they spend tons of money every year getting trained on! What a complete surprise and I’m sure no one ever in the history of the world would have ever predicted!

    • littlewonder@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      2 years ago

      You’re right and it sounds like there’s a large lack of training in the first place. The fact that the schools do far more training and that the kids were left to bleed out because the cops assumed if kids were hurt they would’ve heard kids crying or screaming (they were silent because they were taught not to make any noise during an active shooter event), makes my blood boil.

  • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    2 years ago

    Students should receive 100% wage garnish from all the cops and the cops be forced back to school until the cops are able to graduate.

  • Sabre363@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    35·
    2 years ago

    At this point an AI police force would probably be safer and more effective, as distopian as it sounds

    • a4ng3l@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      Given the propensity of gpt to « fill the gaps » and « follow the narrative » what’s the benefit you expect ? Inability to hold a gun since it doesn’t have hands?

      Also same difference due to training bias of models; they would likely flag the black guy given it would be fed crafted training material the same way your cops are biased…

    • Gork@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      I for one welcome our AI Overlords. Either that or an alien hivemind.

      Hashtag TheBorgDidNothingWrong