Uvalde School Officials Think Hiring Even More Cops Is the Solution

In the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary that left 19 kids and two adults dead, Uvalde district officials have come up with a plan to make their schools ostensibly safer: Hire more police officers.

“It is our goal to hire additional officers to be assigned to each campus for the upcoming school year,” said Hal Harrell, superintendent of Uvalde schools, during a press conference on Thursday.

But there’s no reason to think that Uvalde schools employed an insufficient number of police officers. When the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, entered the school, locked himself inside a fourth-grade classroom, and proceeded to indiscriminately murder children, 19 cops quickly arrived on the scene. They had the gunman completely outnumbered. And in any case, police training instructs officers to confront a mass shooter as speedily as possible, without waiting for background. The problem wasn’t too few cops; the problem was the cops didn’t do anything.

In fact, it was a Border Patrol team that finally—after more than an hour—ignore