After-action reports are standard practice in examining the response of law enforcement and first responders after a mass shooting. Such an independent third-party review has not been filed for the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.
From the story: “The [Newtown Police] department relied on the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association to review its response to the shooting, in which 20 first-graders and 6 adults were killed. Four police chiefs from across the state conducted a review and released a report about a year after the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting. That nine-page report concluded that officers responded quickly to the school and that the ‘Newtown Police Department navigated the inevitable chaos created in the first few minutes of such a call, managed to piece together what was occurring, but were unable to intervene before the shooter took his own life.'Unlike other after-action reports, the chiefs association report did not make any recommendations on how to improve the department's response.”
Read the full story by the Hartford Courant.