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The older chiefs raised in the old mentality of "negotiate, don't shoot" with hostage takers still think in the outdated ways of Broward County. It used to be that people taking hostages always had a list of demands. The universal strategy was let HNT work their magic to talk them out.

That's all changed with the increase in psychotic people roaming free and Islamic terrorism. They don't keep the crazies locked up in an asylum like they used to. Neither they or Islamic terrorists have any real demands except to inflict maximum death. The archaic concept of huddling outside behind cover talking through a megaphone is so ingrained in some people that they don't know how to react to today's threats.

In 2018 you locate and neutralize the shooter as quickly as possible, not stage SWAT and officers outside. The Broward sheriff should be removed from office for his command's incompetence.