https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/18/uvalde-school-shooting-federal-investigation-police-response

states require students and teachers to receive far more training to prepare them for a mass shooting than they require for the police. At least 37 states require schools to conduct active-shooter-related drills, nearly all on an annual basis. But Texas is the only state that mandates that all of its police officers complete repeated training, at least 16 hours every two years. That requirement was implemented after the #Uvalde shooting.
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“Cascading failures”: Justice Department blasts law enforcement’s botched response to Uvalde school shooting

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that had responding officers followed general procedures, some victims would have survived.

The Texas Tribune

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/27/police-reponse-mass-shooting-reports-questions

And then there’s the coke can at Emanuel AME: Despite the U.S. facing more than 120 mass shootings in the past two-and-a-half decades, ProPublica, the Tribune and FRONTLINE found that there is no agreed-upon national standard for who conducts after-action assessments of law enforcement’s response, what they should examine or whether the resulting findings should be released.

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Reports about police actions in U.S. mass shootings lack standardization and often leave unanswered questions

A lack of national standards leads to wide variability in after-action examinations of law enforcement’s response, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE found.

The Texas Tribune
How DeSantis Helped Make the Jacksonville Massacre Possible - Truthdig

By criminalizing complex explanations of Black history, Florida governor Ron DeSantis devalues Black humanity.

Truthdig
Editorial: Fly the Pride flag high for Laura Ann Carleton. And freedom

Fly the multicolored Pride flag in memory of murdered Lake Arrowhead shop owner Laura Ann Carleton, in solidarity with LGBT+ community members who are targeted for violence, and in support of the right of all Americans and indeed all people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Los Angeles Times