Posted on 07/23/2011 9:40:14 PM PDT by quantim
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that.
Survivors of the shooting spree have described hiding and fleeing into the water to escape the gunman, but a police briefing Saturday detailed for the first time how long the terror lasted - and how long victims waited for help.
The shooting came on the heels of what police told The Associated Press was an "Oklahoma city-type" bombing in Oslo's downtown: It targeted a government building, was allegedly perpetrated by a homegrown assailant and used the same mix of fertilizer and fuel that blew up a federal building in the U.S. in 1995.
In all, at least 89 people were killed in the twin attacks that police are blaming on the same suspect, 32-year-old Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik.
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Exactly. Not too long ago, we had an active shooter scenario in Albuquerque at a business. Former employee came back to get his girlfriend, and settle other scores. The 911 call arrived at 9:26, officers were in the building by 9:28. When officers arrived the perp shot himself. He did kill 2 and injure some others, but that was prior to the 911 call being made.
APD doctrine is when this happens, every cop just pours into the area and goes inside immediately. Some searched for the perp, other's pulled out the wounded and put them in their cars to move them to where the EMT's were (outside a perimeter).
Of course you already knew it was gun-free, since there was no return fire.
Well said, I agree 100%. As soon as there were a couple of armed cops (any unit, with or without armor) on the island, they should have headed out on their mission to save lives or die trying.
Otherwise, like you said, BE A LIBRARIAN.
Labor/AUF own the island.
I am in Oslo and watching the police press conference now and they said he had lots of ammunition left when they arrested him. They clarified the timeline as one hour between the first call and when he was taken. The said there was one policeman on duty at the boat launch when the shooting started.
Correction. There is a lot of gun ownership in Norway but it is rifle/shotgun ownership. Very few people have pistols though and you would never get a permit for personal protection.
Utøya mean Out Island. It is the middle of a fjord.
How many died while they wasted dressing up as ninjas?
“””I don’t think prior to 911 that folks would have remained in their seats either had they known it was a suicide flight.
Prior to 9-11 the point was to HOLD hostages as a rule...there were no hostages on 9-11
I grew up in a time when no cop woulda sat around outside a kill zone..especially with kids being slaughtered waiting for armor..no way.
Training does not excuse that.”””
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You just excused it with your own statement. Prior to Columbine that was what the cops trained to do. One of the officers engaged one of the two kids in a doorway and the kids went inside. At that point it was a barricaded gunman and they followed their training.
Do you honestly think the police would have sat around had they known what was going on in the school? If that is the case you have such a low opinion of police there is not much use in debating your posts.
During the Revolutionary war and wars prior to that soldiers stood in the open field with no effort at concealment or cover. It looks positively stupid today but why did they do that back then? Training. You fight like you train.
I will use your own words above but change 9/11 to Columbine. “Prior to Columbine the point was to HOLD hostages..... there were no hostages at Columbine.”
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You go on to say “””Cops..God love them..have gotten more militarized, more “separate”, bigger an better and more sophisticated weapons
and less balls or heart...(with exceptions)...training or not”””
Then you say - “””look back even much closer...West Hollywood bank robbers...talk about brazen...but the cops fought back..engaged...took huge risks to save fellow officers and civilians caught in a serious urban gun battle to rival Chechnya or Bosnia”””
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So do the cops have balls or not? Which is it? You decry the “militarization” of the cops and point to the very incident (North Hollywood Shootout) which led to the sweeping change in law enforcement to give patrol officers long guns so that another North Hollywood Shootout would not occur. One patrol rifle would have ended that but the cops did not have them because politicians did not think they fit the image of “community policing”.
Community policing (kinder and gentler) was the buzzword of the day back then. Just like your example that I did not quote of Bonnie and Clyde the cops still engaged despite being outgunned. They still ran to gunfire did’nt they?
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The rest of your post above reeked of “armchair warrior syndrome” who does not like the cops. Cops are human just like anyone else and I know some really good ones who quit because they had seen enough ugly stuff to last a lifetime. I knew a few who could not handle it, did not ask for help, and tragically ended their own lives. I have known plenty who were not good examples of what a cop should be. I have seen plenty of things that will haunt me for the rest of my life. I guess in your eyes that makes me weak but I still get dressed every day and run to gunfire thinking of my own small children at home.
I absolutely think SWAT is overused and there are many reasons for it including politics. Usually the SWAT guys are in charge of department tactics and training and being SWAT guys they think SWAT is the answer for everything. No arguments from me there and I don’t always agree with it. I am a fan of waiting outside a house with a few officers and arresting or detaining a bad guy outside the house before serving a search warrant with little kids present. I always feel bad for little kids who are terrified when SWAT comes in because their sperm donor was a jackwagon.
However, you criticize SWAT for training like the SEAL’s and other “high speed - low drag” small combat units? Seems like the SEAL’s would be a better unit to emulate than Andy and Barney Fife if you are going to storm a location with an armed bad guy inside.
I know guys who are wearing badges that were in their prior lives active-duty SF, Rangers, Infantry, Force Recon, and believe it or not one guy was SAS before immigrating to the U.S. with his wife. I wore crossed rifles with some of the other fancy adornment.
There are many problems in law enforcement today and many bad cops. It can be a really crappy job and it is possibly the most second-guessed and monday morning quarterbacked occupation there is. Joe Public, Judges, attorneys, reporters, and even other cops all armed with more information than the officer had provide all kinds of opinions of “woulda, shoulda, and coulda”.
I don’t know the heart of every man and woman wearing a badge. Only God knows. I do know that I have been blessed to serve with many who I would have happily sat in a foxhole with and I knew if I died on that day they would continue to take care of my family. The comraderie in many ways is second to none.
I know that one of the Sergeants who was at Columbine goes around putting on some excellent training. Even years later, you can hear the regret in his voice. I respect the fact that he understands what went wrong, his own part in it, and he stands before strangers to help prevent it from happening again. They have to live with that. You and I can just fire and forget about it on a web forum.
There are many laws that suck on the books today. There are many departments that are not being run with the right priorities. There are also many good men and women who are doing the best they can to enforce the law with common sense and decency. If you don’t like the laws blame the politicians. If you feel like your department(s) are misguided work to change it at the local level.
Just my .02 and you can dismiss it with a simple mouse click if you got this far. Regardless, bless you and yours and best of luck to you.
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What I think is that your post was a personal attack and mine was not.
I don’t mind personal attacks...in fact I am arguably as tenacious as they come here.
But I purposely avoided that with you.
What my own experience has been with war or violence or law enforcement over the last century has been is irrelevant since I did not quote my experience in those matters but rather my observances from earlier times of how police acted in my presence or in sensational events..and I listed a number of historical ones from Austin to Hollywood.
But you are correct. I am not impressed with today’s militarized cops.
Whoever “trained” the Columbine cops to sit on their asses was I hope dismissed immediately
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