State Police Yet to Issue Review of Response to Sandy Hook Shooting

The Connecticut State Police Department has yet to issue an after-action report analyzing law enforcement response to the Sandy Hook shooting, the Hartford Courant reports.

According to the Courant, Newtown Police have not done an internal review of their response, relying instead on a nine-page report done by the police chief’s association. The report done by the chief’s association did not did not make any recommendations on how to improve the department’s response.

A total of 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 by shooter Adam Lanza. Lanza shot and killed his mother Nancy Lanza before the school shooting and committed suicide before police reached him.

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After-action reports have been issued after the Boston Marathon bombing, the Virginia Tech shooting and after a shooting at Northern Illinois University. The review is intended to identify areas that can be improved and not meant to place blame on the police.

Philip Schaenman, a project manager for a company that has completed several after-action reports told the Courant he was surprised a third-party review of the Sandy Hook shooting was not conducted. He said the reasons for conducting such a report include an unbiased review of the response, the opportunity for other law enforcement agencies around the country to determine best practices to adopt and for businesses and schools to learn security measures in the event of an active shooter.

A review of the response was started by Connecticut State Police in Feb. 2013, the Courant reports. Since then requests for the report by the Courant have been denied and they have been told that it is not yet complete.

Read the full story at The Courant.

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