Other missteps have not been as widely scrutinized. In Las Vegas in 2017, two officers stayed on the hotel floor below a shooter instead of rushing upstairs to confront him as he spewed bullets into a crowd of concertgoers. The next year in Thousand Oaks, California, officers attempted to confront a shooter within minutes of arriving at the scene. Some retreated after he shot at them. Police did not reenter to engage the shooter again for more than 40 minutes, even as victims remained inside.
Active shooter training, which emphasizes rushing into danger flatly contradicts all the other training and police culture that emphasize officer safety.
The Supreme Court has constantly ruled that police have no duty to protect life, enforce court orders, or uphold the law. In one of these cases, Castle Rock v. Gonzales, during oral arguments, Justice Ginsburg wondered aloud “what are police for”.
The police are guardians of property of the wealthy: slave catchers, night watchmen, and bodyguards who’ve been socialized so that the powerful can share the cost with the very people being regulated. Fuck the police.