ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE - District 91¿´Æ¬istration District 91¿´Æ¬istration Media Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:15:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Active shooter training: State-specific requirements for schools and law enforcement /article/active-shooter-training-state-specific-requirements-for-schools-and-law-enforcement/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:15:43 +0000 /?p=158701 No states mandate annual active shooter training for police officers, according to an analysis. In comparison, at least 37 states require such training in schools, typically on a yearly basis.

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Four years later, officers who descended on Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School, a vast majority of whom were not school police, repeatedly acted in ways that ran contrary to what active shooter training teaches, waiting 77 minutes to engage the gunman. An investigation published in December by The Texas Tribune, ProPublica and FRONTLINE revealed that about 30% of the 116 state and local officers who responded in May 2022 did not get active shooter training after graduating from police academies. Of those who had, many received such instruction only once in their careers, which at least eight police training experts say is not enough

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]]> Why we’re publishing never-reported details of the Uvalde school shooting before state investigators /article/why-were-publishing-never-reported-details-of-the-uvalde-school-shooting-before-state-investigators/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:58:49 +0000 /?p=156384 When mass shootings devastate communities, investigators often set out to learn what happened by interviewing a wide array of people. What’s made public, if anything, rarely details the intimate, candid and emotional responses of the survivors and the first responders.

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]]> When mass shootings devastate communities, investigators often set out to learn what happened by interviewing a wide array of people. What’s made public, if anything, rarely details the intimate, candid and emotional responses of the survivors and the first responders.

Today, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and the PBS series FRONTLINE are jointly publishing an in-depth examination of the response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, using a trove of raw materials from a state investigation whose findings have yet to be released.

The records include investigative interviews with officers, emergency responders, teachers and children, as well as video footage, audio recordings and photographs. Using these records, we reconstructed the day’s events, showing in painstaking detail how law enforcement’s lack of preparation contributed to delays in confronting the shooter on May 24, 2022. Nineteen children and two teachers died that day. Dozens of others will forever contend with scars, both physical and emotional.

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