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Fabs the reason I mentioned it like I did is because of limited LEO presence on a campus. If you have three cars with 4 LEOs on patrol. You get a report of gunshots fired and one LEO makes it there a full five minutes before the second and rushes in. Bang he's dead. The second arrives and rushes in. Bang he's dead. The last two arrive in one car two minutes later and rush in. They MIGHT have a chance being that there are two of them. They WOULD have had a chance had there been four. Assuming these two don't make it then you now have four dead LEOs and more dead victims with City/State/County on the way (Often an hour or more away from the call). You might not have needed City/State/County had you simply waited for #2-#4 to arrive and moved in together. Now instead of an 8 minute wait to a four man team who could have done the job you have 30 minutes or more for the bad guy to finish up what he wants to do. You are always tactical disadvantage when you are the one attacking, not defending. That being said if they KNEW there was one person, and they KNEW where he was, and they HAD a visual it would be a different story. Then there is NO reason for one man not to move to get a kill shot. I know it is a LEOs job to put their life on the line. Believe me I know. You know what is curious though? In an enviroment like a college campus the only person with worse pay that the LEOs is usually the janitor. LEOs who put their life on the line daily, like our boys and girls in the military, are paid piss poor. They have piss poor benefits, and it is expected for them to throw out their chest and charge guns blazing into the fray. Not an excuse for them not to try just point out how unappreciated they are.
Tactics are tactics. It is not to the advantage of the officers or the victims for the officers to get killed to no avail and leave the bad guys to go back to slaughtering the sheep.
My understanding is that there was spare ammo when he was found dead. I don't know for certain I have not read that part of the report yet.
My 2 cents.
GoodOlBoy
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