On November 1, 2013, a gunman opened fire in Terminal 3 at Los Angeles International Airport. He was soon confronted and shot by airport police officers, but not before killing a TSA agent and wounding two others and a traveler.
I was still with the LAPD at the time and was among the hundreds of police officers and federal agents who responded to the shooting’s chaotic aftermath. I wrote about the incident two days later, offering my perspective on why the chaos was far worse than it need have been. In short, decisions were made based on inaccurate and speculative reports, this despite the fact that reliable information was readily at hand. These poorly informed decisions led to an unnecessarily prolonged shutdown of the airport, bringing undue misery to thousands of travelers and causing disruptions to air traffic that were felt all over the country and beyond.
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-WiscoDave
All too often the "law" is nothing more than the whim of a politician.
ReplyDeleteI know a dentist who wants to open his office to help his worse off patients who need dental problems fixed sooner rather than later. His professional association-working for the benefit of many dentists-cannot get consistent information from the governor's office and several of the state alphabet agencies on even simple things like the opening date, let alone the safety protocols. Looks more and more like a train wreck.
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