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as vanita gupta will discuss, it defined the aftermath of the shooting. for example surviving victims, some with bullet wounds and other injuries were put on buses without being brought to the attention of medics. some families were told that their family members had survived when they had not. and victims' families and community members struggled to receive timely and accurate information about what had occurred. the justice department's objective in preparing this report was three-fold. first, to honor the victim, survivors and their loved ones. second, to provide a clear and independent accounting of the law enforcement response to the horrific attack that devastated this community. and third, to provide law enforcement agencies and communities across the country with analysis and recommendation days about how what happened at uvalde should perform efforts to prepare themselves for and respond to mass shootings. policing is a noble profession. it is also a hard one. it requires training and constant education about evolving threats. the report includes

associate attorney general vanita gupta led the investigation. >> have you seen a bigger policing failuree justice department had never seen anything like this. the goal of the justice department's engagement has been to learn from these lessons. >> reporter: after reviewing over 14,000 pieces of data and more than 260 interviews, the report lays much of the blame on then-school police chief pete arredondo and his failure to treat it as an active shooter situation and not send all available resources towards the threat until entry was made into the classroom. >> had the law enforcement agencies followed generally accepted practices, lives would have been saved, and people would have survived. >> reporter: arredondo instead chose to evacuate other classrooms and wait for keys, backup, and tools. >> can you please tell the police to come to the room? >> reporter: a student from inside the classroom called 911 asking for help, and officers still waited nearly 40 minutes before stopping the shooter. only a handful of officers at the scene have lost their job or resigned. >> because the doj st

the associate attorney general vanita gupta led the investigation.e you seen a bigger policing failure in your career? >> the justice department had never seen anything like this. goal of the justice department's engagement has been to learn from these lessons. >> reporter: after reviewing over 40,000 pieces of data and more than 260 interviews, the report lays much of the blame on then-school police chief pete arredondo and his failure to treat it as an active shooter situation, and not send all available resources towards the threat until entry was made into the classroom. >> had law enforcement agencies followed generally-accepted practices, lives would have been saved, and people would have survived. >> reporter: arredondo instead chose to evacuate other classrooms and wait for keys, backup, and tools. >> can the police come to my room? >> i've already told them to come to the room. we're trying to get them to you. >> reporter: a student from inside the classroom called 911 asking for help, and officers still waited nearly 40 minutes before stopp

they spent two hours with the attorney general and then one of his deputies, vanita gupta. they said it was a tough meeting. it was emotional at times. they want accountability, the families. they feel perhaps they're on their way here. and one of the key things i'm told from family members, they were told last night, the department of justice stressed the fact one of the problems on the day of the shooting was there was no command structure, no one was essentially in charge giving orders. one of the parents of one of the kids who survived spoke after the meeting. here is what he said. >> i'm hopeful that you see all the people here that this will expand by 1,000%, not only the people in the united states but around the world will see the abysmal failure law enforcement had. >> reporter: the other thing here, phil and poppy, is that it is taking so long for these families to get these answers, and the fact they've been victimized in so many different ways by state officials, by local officials. that is something the department of justice stressed to them that they're trying

take a listen to vanita gupta. i spoke with her today. >> for 77 minutes parents aren't getting accurate information about is the shooter alive, is he dead? is he continuing to shoot? and after you have parents who are getting inaccurate information about perhaps one more bus of survivors that will bring my child off the bus. it's utterly unconscionable. >> reporter: the report says some parents whose children died were told they survived and vice versa, just unconscionable misinformation to these grieving parents, kate and zinhle. >> the more information we get, it never gets easier. what lessons can police, law enforcement, learn from this? >> let's be honest, we have been dealing with school shootings, over 24 years ago now. we have a series in this country over the years along with other mass shootings. police know exactly what to do. many of them had just received this training in these type of critical incidents. yes, this was an abject failure of leadership, abject fail europe of outrageousness and should no