Former 5-0 here... Being a town of 16,000 I can guarantee that they had a part time swat team. That means it consists of officers who work throughout the department, on different shifts even, doing their assigned jobs. When swat is needed they are basically called up and have to report to a certain place at the pd, gear up and most likely travel to the location in a common vehicle.
This is how my much larger employer worked and we knew it would take approximately 45-60 min for them to show up.
My opinion, having taken active shooter training many times, responding officers should've stormed in. Even if they were by themselves. Even if I received an order to stand down I'd risk my job (and life) to go in there to stop the threat. How can these guys and gals live with themselves now, much like the Florida resource officer who ran away. Ugh.
Not sure why someone would downvote my comment on my real world experience, but whatever. Life goes on...
Being a tiny town like that I'd imagine 2 or more of the 6 officer (I saw a picture w 6 of them) we're unavailable. Sick? Vacation? Who knows... Just spitballin... So they had to call in BORTAC.
My city had two swat units to pull from despite being "part-time."
So why did they stand down? Was an order given to stand down?
If Uvalde has a swat team, why did they wait for the border patrol swat team?
Former 5-0 here... Being a town of 16,000 I can guarantee that they had a part time swat team. That means it consists of officers who work throughout the department, on different shifts even, doing their assigned jobs. When swat is needed they are basically called up and have to report to a certain place at the pd, gear up and most likely travel to the location in a common vehicle.
This is how my much larger employer worked and we knew it would take approximately 45-60 min for them to show up.
My opinion, having taken active shooter training many times, responding officers should've stormed in. Even if they were by themselves. Even if I received an order to stand down I'd risk my job (and life) to go in there to stop the threat. How can these guys and gals live with themselves now, much like the Florida resource officer who ran away. Ugh.
okay. If Uvalde has a part time swat team, why did they wait for the border patrol swat team.
Not sure why someone would downvote my comment on my real world experience, but whatever. Life goes on...
Being a tiny town like that I'd imagine 2 or more of the 6 officer (I saw a picture w 6 of them) we're unavailable. Sick? Vacation? Who knows... Just spitballin... So they had to call in BORTAC.
My city had two swat units to pull from despite being "part-time."