At least half the time of the police news conferences were spent in lavish self-praise of the response of law enforcement.
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As far as I can tell, it’s still believed that it took over an hour for the public union employees to reach the shooter’s room.
An hour to reach his room, or an hour to act after they got to that floor?
Even if the Hotel did not notify LE after the building engineer and security guard made their radio calls LE should have been able to locate the room in less than an hour.
All of these cities have had money pouring in since 9/11 in order to prepare for an event like this. Tons of money has been spent on training, gear, even military type gear and weapons. Someone during all of this had to think of a scenario where someone would be somehow shooting down on a crowd of people. That is a pretty basic sort of attack, Las Vegas is known for having crowds of people.
So knowing they have had all this funding, years to plan and prepare I am not impressed. The Mandalay Bay should have been doing their own planning and preparing as well.
Yet it seems when it actually happened, the LE and the Mandalay Bay were unable to deal with it. Their response was as if no planning and preparing had been done. No one engaged the shooter even to the extent it would have distracted him from shooting at the crowd.