Monis had a gun in his hand. Jean Charles de Menezes didnt.
NSW police screwed up
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People are quite happy to judge after 2 1/2 years of thinking in retrospect with all the information about decisions made over 16 hrs with conflicting and incomplete information.
I would Love to think that this sort if incident will never happen again But we all know that it Will.
What we really need to do is improve how we prevent these attacks and how we react and stop them when they do happen.
What we are doing now obviously isn't working.
We need to look at how other countries are dealing with this and adopt some of their methods that work.
Having just spent the last 30 mins discussing this with my ex Met neighbour, I could not agree more. I wonder what the response from all the bleeding hearts would be if if it were their brother/sister/mother/you get the picture.
Obama ( you know, Peace Prize and all that ) proved that appeasement does not work, so why do people want to keep trying it?
Given his overtly demonstrated issue motivated grievances, propensity for violence and psychopathology, he potentially was easily exploited by extremists with IED capability.
A search of his home would have put the prospect of an IED at 50:50 at best, not discovered or known to be a false claim. Not great odds when playing with 18 lives. Would you trust the police to put your life on red or black at a roulette game?
No question, in retrospect, the NSW police would manage this differently with learnings from the past 2 1/2 years and some new resourcing and capability. But it doesn't guarantee a different outcome.