After the LV shooting I always look into police chiefs. The LV chief ended up a year later as the Lahaina chief - fancy that. The Chief of Police in PA retired suddenly just shy of 30 days prior to the shooting. He was already on vacation when he resigned and didn't return to work. It sounded like it was a surprise to everyone. This guy had come out of retirement to take the job as chief. From what I have been able to gather about him is that he ended up saving the department. There has been funding problems for years and he managed to get a much needed influx of cash from the city to keep the department going and update some equipment - like bodycams and older communications equipment. Otherwise the city was looking at disbanding its police dept and coming under the County Sherriff. At the time of the shooting there was a lieutenant currently on the force that stepped in as acting chief till the city could get a new chief. The city hired another current member of the department as chief but it doesn't appear that he had officially started working yet in the position.
It is a very small township police dept without a lot of resources. A good choice if wanting to set the stage for huge security gaps. What I have been able to find out by listening to the interviews of the officers is that they had assignments such as traffic control and manning the metal detectors. A couple of officers on traffic detail heard over the radio about a suspicious actor and were the ones that encountered the "shooter" on the roof. The retired chief in some of his interviews seems to hint at the fact that he knows they will try to pin some of the blame on his guys for the failure so he is very clear about that roof being someone else's job. It doesn't sound like they were even in the security information loop. Also, this now retired chief is a huge 2A supporter and refused to enforce any bogus gun laws. In his interviews it sounds like he is not a progressive wokie. It is just curious to me that he retired so suddenly the way he did so close to the time of the shooting. Coincidence or did he know something?
Understand that in this area there is State Police, a County Sherif, the City of Butler Police and then the Butler Township Police Department. Butler Township is the township next to the city of Butler on it's West and is where the venue is located. The township Police had the traffic duty. I'm pretty sure the City Police had nothing to do with this.
Thanks for the clarification. All I know is that the chief tried to make sure that his dept was not responsible for the security failure. All the hands in the pie makes it difficult to know who was supposed to be responsible for what. It should never happen again.
After the LV shooting I always look into police chiefs. The LV chief ended up a year later as the Lahaina chief - fancy that. The Chief of Police in PA retired suddenly just shy of 30 days prior to the shooting. He was already on vacation when he resigned and didn't return to work. It sounded like it was a surprise to everyone. This guy had come out of retirement to take the job as chief. From what I have been able to gather about him is that he ended up saving the department. There has been funding problems for years and he managed to get a much needed influx of cash from the city to keep the department going and update some equipment - like bodycams and older communications equipment. Otherwise the city was looking at disbanding its police dept and coming under the County Sherriff. At the time of the shooting there was a lieutenant currently on the force that stepped in as acting chief till the city could get a new chief. The city hired another current member of the department as chief but it doesn't appear that he had officially started working yet in the position.
It is a very small township police dept without a lot of resources. A good choice if wanting to set the stage for huge security gaps. What I have been able to find out by listening to the interviews of the officers is that they had assignments such as traffic control and manning the metal detectors. A couple of officers on traffic detail heard over the radio about a suspicious actor and were the ones that encountered the "shooter" on the roof. The retired chief in some of his interviews seems to hint at the fact that he knows they will try to pin some of the blame on his guys for the failure so he is very clear about that roof being someone else's job. It doesn't sound like they were even in the security information loop. Also, this now retired chief is a huge 2A supporter and refused to enforce any bogus gun laws. In his interviews it sounds like he is not a progressive wokie. It is just curious to me that he retired so suddenly the way he did so close to the time of the shooting. Coincidence or did he know something?
Understand that in this area there is State Police, a County Sherif, the City of Butler Police and then the Butler Township Police Department. Butler Township is the township next to the city of Butler on it's West and is where the venue is located. The township Police had the traffic duty. I'm pretty sure the City Police had nothing to do with this.
Thanks for the clarification. All I know is that the chief tried to make sure that his dept was not responsible for the security failure. All the hands in the pie makes it difficult to know who was supposed to be responsible for what. It should never happen again.
Thanks for the info!
Vegas has a sheriff not a chief and it was the undersherrif who went to lahaina. The sheriff is now governor.
There is a Clark County Sheriff and a LV Police Dept. The chief of Lahaina's PD was the former chief of LVPD who was chief during the LV shooting.