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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3459890" data-attributes="member: 39593">The problem is the mindset, they enter a scene with no real information, immediately leap to a conclusion, then attempt to look only for what they expect to find.  They did know they had a firearm casualty they ASSUMED the rest based on nothing more than what they expected to find.  We had a retired detective come around at one of my jobs about five years ago to teach "logical problemsolving" because of some high-up company thing.  Paraphrasing for brevity to compress about fifteen minutes of the core into a couple sentences his method was... When you first get to the scene immediately ask yourself what your gut reaction tells you to believe then look for all the evidence that proves it.  If that approach doesn't lead to rampant mistakes I'm a flying prismatic vampire goldfish named Qbert. When they should have taken that description and sent out patrols across campus checking people who met the description and were carrying a firearm.  If it really was a standard domestic homicide they had plenty of time to catch the shooter later.  When you have a shooting you CHECK for ARMED PEOPLE.  If the killer dumped the gun and fled don't worry you can run him down later once you figure out who your suspect IS.  But the first thing is to make sure you don't still have an armed gunman running around, it won't hurt the dead if it takes a few more hours to begin questioning the usual suspects.</blockquote>

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