Among the common concerns in Tuesday’s report to the commission: A lack of communication about where to go, the absence of anyone in charge, disorganization at the Marriott, incorrect information given out to families, the lack of a single point of contact for families and the failure to keep the news media far enough away.
After receiving the news, families said they were given little support. They had been separated physically from friends and family; there were no victims’ advocates there; they didn’t receive from authorities much empathy or information about what to expect over the next few days. Some said they weren’t offered a ride home.
Death notifications after Parkland shooting were slow and insensitive, families say
This article will break your heart. Contrary to what Scott Israel kept proclaiming, BSO was not prepared at all for a Mass Casualty event even though they already had the experience of the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting. I believe the bosses never gave too much care to learn from mistakes made nor to implement what other Law Enforcement organizations may have done.
I understand that Death Notifications are the hardest things a police officer can ever do in his job. And to notify parents that their kids will never make it hone again has to be the worse. But not to have a prepared line of action and properly trained officers to deal with something like Parkland is simply unacceptable and an indicative of hubris by the leadership: It won’t happen in my watch so, why should I care?
I heard somewhere that some events are as rare as lightning strike hitting somebody but still somebody is getting hit.
BSO thought they were safe from lighting strikes but it seems Zeus came over and prove them wrong.
The fire department in this country has had a system that manages all of this, and it has been used for decades: The Incident Management System. It works so well, that the 9/11 commission and Federal government mandate its use.
The police all over the nation, busy with territorial and jurisdiction squabbles, refuse to use it because they all want to be in charge in order to take credit for success by shirk responsibility for failure.
For example, all radio communications are supposed to be in plain English without codes or jargon, so as to facilitate clear unambiguous communication. The police refuse, wanting to use encryption, codes, and the like because they like to pretend that they are soldiers engaged in some sort of war zone and can’t have anyone intercepting their communications.