Uvalde School Shooting Investigation Report To Be Released by Justice Department

The Department of Justice has announced that it will be releasing a report on its federal investigation regarding the law enforcement failure in Texas during the tragic Uvalde School Shooting incident where police failed to stop a gunman from killing 21 people, including 19 elementary school children.

The mostly Latino community in Uvalde, Texas continues to grapple with the trauma from that deadly school shooting, with many residents still divided over the questions of accountability for officers' actions and inaction. This upcoming DOJ report may shed some light on the "halting and haphazard law enforcement" that happened that day.

The release of the review, which is expected to drop on Thursday, is expected to revive the scrutiny of the hundreds of officers who responded to the school shooting that has revived the debate about guns in Texas, as the gunman was able to procure his weapons legally in the state.

According to the Associated Press, Texas lawmakers and the media have pinned the blame mostly on law enforcement, launching legislative hearings and investigative reports that found police officers have failed "to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety."

However, this Department of Justice report may be more damning, as the DOJ has previously released new footage that showed police waiting in a hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms while the gunman opened fire on the children. The footage has led to national ridicule for Uvalde police, with many pointing out that the "Good Guy With a Gun" argument that gun advocates and lobbyists usually espouse often leads to failure, such was the case in the Texas town.

DOJ Report Will Be the Highest Level of Review for the Uvalde School Shooting Yet

According to NBC-DFW 5, this report is expected to be the highest level of review yet of the Uvalde mass shooting, and it is expected to reinforce some of the Texas House's findings regarding how ineffective the school's police had been.

"I think some of the takeaways are likely going to be that there was lack of leadership on the ground, that the leadership that was on the ground was not coordinated with the other agencies that were there," said Alex Del Carmen, Associate Dean of Criminology at Tarleton State University.

He pointed out that the DOJ "has had more time, resources, funding, and combined experience than the state," making this new Uvalde report more comprehensive and may answer some lingering questions such as "Why is it that parents were detained from having to go in to try to rescue their children? Why was the information that came out initially wrong?"

New Study About School Shootings Show That Anonymous Tips Work

The release of the DOJ's Uvalde report is likely to reignite the gun debate, and it comes just after a report from the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System, operated by the violence prevention group Sandy Hook Promise, found that anonymous tips do indeed work to stop school shootings and suicides.

The report found that the anonymous reporting system "enabled 1,039 confirmed mental health interventions; 109 'saves' where clear evidence of imminent suicide crisis was present and averted; prevented 38 acts of school-violence including weapons recovered on school grounds; and averted 6 confirmed planned school attacks," according to CNN.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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