DOJ Says Law Enforcement Response to Uvalde School Shooting Was ‘A Failure’

Published on January 18, 2024

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said the 2022 mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, could have been stopped sooner, describing the law enforcement response as a “failure.” A DOJ report, the most comprehensive federal accounting of the maligned police response to the May 24, 2022, shooting at Robb Elementary School, catalogs a sweeping array of training, communication, leadership, and technology problems that federal officials say contributed to the crisis lasting far longer than necessary. All the while, the report says, terrified students inside the classrooms called 911 and agonized parents begged officers to go in. “I told the families gathered last night what I hope is clear among the hundreds of pages and thousands of details in this report: Their loved ones deserved better,” Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday at a news conference in Uvalde....

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