The chief of the Ramapo Police department insists should a local school be a target for a mass shooting, the police response would be nothing like what happened in Uvalde, Texas last month. According to NPR, a scathing investigative report by the Texas House of Representatives found “systemic failures and egregiously poor decision-making” by law enforcement and school officials, allowing the shooter to kill 19 students and two teachers. Ramapo Police chief Martin Reilly acknowledges anything can happen anywhere at any time, but he says thanks to the training they do all the time, his cops are going in…
Ramapo PD recently conducted an active shooter drill with the Suffern and Spring Valley PD and the Sheriff’s Department. The Texas report found that nearly 400 law enforcement officers from multiple departments arrived on the scene at the elementary school, but it was chaotic and uncoordinated, and lacked leadership or the basic communication needed to take down the gunman.