My very limited understanding is that the FBI will call local authorities to be their eyes and ears for these suspicious cases of potential mass shooters. The authorities involved don't always communicate properly, and then a bunch of people are dead and nobody feels like it should be their fault. It's a complicated issue that is made further complicated because people are assholes and have no sense of responsibility beyond the minimum, from organizations big and small.
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The question is: why were these mass killers not stopped?
Some of the answer has to do with straightforward blunders. But some of it is related to the culture of law enforcement, which is still grappling with the emergence of spectacular mass-casualty events, despite a crescendo of incidents since the Columbine school shootings in 1999 and a growing body of knowledge on how to prepare for and prevent them.
“If agents and officers are looking for the characteristics of a traditional terrrorist, they’re not going to find them,” Cohen said. “If they are simply looking to see if an individual has violated the law so he can be arrested, very often they will not see that and will then believe there is nothing they can do.”
What was required, Cohen said, was an entirely different approach, which involves pooling information from a variety of sources including family members, school counsellors, social workers and mental health professionals to build a behavioral risk assessment, much as the Secret Service does when sizing up threats to the president.
At that point a number of avenues can open up: working with families or schools to address the underlying causes of an individual’s depression or mental instability; recommending in-patient or out-patient care with a mental health clinic; or going to a judge to restrict the person’s access to firearms, including ones already in the subject’s possession.
Some jurisdictions – in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, the Maryland suburbs of Washington and elsewhere – are doing some or all this already. Others, though, are lagging behind. And some agencies – most notoriously the FBI – are known to be reluctant to share information at all and are prone to bureaucratic in-fighting with other agencies.
There are also bedrock disagreements on how to classify mass shootings – as domestic terrorism, along with more overtly political and more targeted attacks, or as something separate. Such definitions have operational implications: the FBI, for example, has much greater leeway to gather intelligence on suspected terrorists than it does on other categories of suspected criminals.
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