‘Cascading failures’ in police response to Uvalde school shooting, DoJ report finds

Report likely to revive scrutiny of officers who responded to 2022 massacre but waited over an hour to confront gunman

Police officials who responded to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas demonstrated no urgency" in setting up a command post and failed to treat the killings as an active shooter situation, according to a justice department report released Thursday that identifies cascading failures" in law enforcement's handling of one of the deadliest massacres at a school in American history.

The justice department report, the most comprehensive federal accounting of the haphazard police response to the 24 May 2022 shooting at Robb elementary school, identifies a vast array of problems from failed communication and leadership to inadequate technology and training that federal officials say contributed to the crisis lasting far longer than it should have.