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No states mandate annual active shooter training for police officers, according to an analysis by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE. In comparison, at least 37 states require such training in schools, typically on a yearly basis.
February 8, 2024
DOJ Blasts Law Enforcement’s Uvalde Shooting Response in New Report, Calls for Agencies to Prioritize Training
In a long-awaited report, the Justice Department found widespread failures in the official response to the 2022 shooting. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that had officers followed accepted practices, “lives would have been saved.”
January 18, 2024
Reconstructing the Uvalde Shooting Response
Journalists behind “Inside the Uvalde Response” discuss how hundreds of hours of body cam footage and officer interviews reveal a chaotic police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX.
January 4, 2024
Reports Analyzing the Police Response to a Mass Shooting Can Leave Unanswered Questions — if They’re Released at All
Even if an after-action investigation is released, a lack of national standards leads to wide variability in the detail of information in reports, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE found.
December 27, 2023
‘Inside the Uvalde Response’ Director and Reporter Talk About Helping People Understand ‘How This Went Wrong’
A conversation with two of the makers of FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s documentary “Inside the Uvalde Response” about how they analyzed a trove of investigative material to reconstruct the chaotic response to the Robb Elementary School shooting.
December 8, 2023
Uvalde Students Followed Active Shooter Training & Stayed Quiet. Some Responding Officers Didn’t Realize Kids Were in Classrooms.
Accounts from law enforcement officers in a documentary from FRONTLINE, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica show that Robb Elementary students stayed quiet and hidden on May 24, 2022 as they were trained to do – and, because of that, 'officers thought they weren't there' and took longer to help, reporter Lomi Kriel says in this excerpt from 'Inside the Uvalde Response.'
December 5, 2023
“Someone Tell Me What to Do”
Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and officers waited on opposite sides of the door.
December 5, 2023
Why We’re Publishing Never-Reported Details of the Uvalde School Shooting Before State Investigators
Over a year after the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the community still doesn’t know what went wrong. It’s a key reason we’re publishing findings based on a trove of raw materials investigators have yet to release.
December 5, 2023
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Inside the Uvalde Response
Drawing on real-time, firsthand accounts and using official bodycam and audio, FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reconstruct the chaotic response to the Uvalde school shooting and examine the missteps.
December 5, 2023
The Henry Glover Killing & the New Orleans Police Department’s Efforts to End Federal Oversight
As the documentary “Law & Disorder” becomes newly available on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel, we examine recent developments surrounding Henry Glover’s case and the federal oversight of the NOPD.
October 24, 2023
Why John Pope Wanted to Release the Body Camera Footage Behind the Derek Chauvin Brutality Settlement
John Pope was 14 when he was pinned down by then-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. Pope spoke to FRONTLINE about the importance of releasing body camera footage related to the 2017 incident.
May 18, 2023
‘An Unfiltered View’: Producers of ‘Police on Trial’ on What the Documentary Reveals 2 Years After the Murder of George Floyd
"That's the value of time — to not just watch and see this chronology unfold, but to really push through the surface-level narratives," said Mike Shum, director of "Police on Trial," about the new documentary from FRONTLINE and Star Tribune.
May 31, 2022