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2018-04-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

Looking for 'solutions' to mass killings? Start with punishing failure.

[USAToday] Law enforcement keeps failing, and people keep dying. Where are the consequences? Where is the accountability?

Despite receiving a warning directly from the Russian government, the FBI failed to stop the Tsarnaev brothers from staging the Boston Marathon bombing. Despite having plenty of resources, the Charlottesville police failed to stop a car attack that left a woman dead. The FBI interviewed Omar Mateen, the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooter, and considered criminally investigating him. They didn’t ‐ possibly because his father was an FBI informant.

The FBI also missed numerous "red flags" before the San Bernardino shooting. And despite having lots of warning, the FBI, the Broward County schools and the Broward Sheriff’s Department under Sheriff Scott Israel all failed to stop Nikolas Cruz from shooting up a high school.

And yet these repeated failures ‐ among others ‐ keep getting swept under the rug as we look for "solutions" to the problem of violence. No doubt Israel and the others whose incompetence made it possible for Cruz to kill his classmates were relieved to see our national discourse veer into questions of whether Laura Ingraham should lose sponsors for mocking David Hogg’s college-admissions failures, instead of their own failures to do their jobs.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-09 13:03|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 USA Today says this? Maybe that's a start. If the MSM would start hounding elected officials about these failures maybe something would get done.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-04-09 15:37|| 2018-04-09 15:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, you didn't fire the CIA director a day or two after 9/11.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-09 18:08|| 2018-04-09 18:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor and the author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself, is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors. Follow him on Twitter: @instapundit.

Columnist, Abu Uluque, not something from the USA Today stable of staff editorialists.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-04-09 18:08|| 2018-04-09 18:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Column is by instapundit, a libertarian blogger and must read site.

Posted by ruprecht 2018-04-09 23:04|| 2018-04-09 23:04|| Front Page Top

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