There has been a massive coordination of communications from top to bottom for decades. That goes back to Columbine in 1999 when local police departments around suburban Denver couldn't talk to each other. Now 25 years later it is exceedingly rare not to have mutual aid communication at the local, county and state level and dovetailing that with federal directly or via dispatcher is not a far fetched concept. Not just LEO but fire rescue and aviation. The nation has spent many billions of dollars with contractors such as Motorola to develop this infrastructure. I'd be highly suspicious to hear elements of a detail such as this took more than a few seconds for information to be passed from the individual sheriff's deputy to the USSS incident commander. If the communication system was compromised and not functioning that alone would should be a reason to implement a procedure to figure out why and protect people. If nothing else, never mind the president and USSS responsibility, the local and state police should have done something to watch out for their citizens in the crowd. If this was a concert or county fair and some nut climbed up on a roof with a rifle wouldn't the police swarm to stop it? When detailed to a federal event do they no longer have a responsibility to their primary job? Maybe they only swarm like that when it's lucrative and a civil forfeiture is afoot.
There has been a massive coordination of communications from top to bottom for decades. That goes back to Columbine in 1999 when local police departments around suburban Denver couldn't talk to each other. Now 25 years later it is exceedingly rare not to have mutual aid communication at the local, county and state level and dovetailing that with federal directly or via dispatcher is not a far fetched concept. Not just LEO but fire rescue and aviation. The nation has spent many billions of dollars with contractors such as Motorola to develop this infrastructure. I'd be highly suspicious to hear elements of a detail such as this took more than a few seconds for information to be passed from the individual sheriff's deputy to the USSS incident commander. If the communication system was compromised and not functioning that alone would should be a reason to implement a procedure to figure out why and protect people. If nothing else, never mind the president and USSS responsibility, the local and state police should have done something to watch out for their citizens in the crowd. If this was a concert or county fair and some nut climbed up on a roof with a rifle wouldn't the police swarm to stop it? When detailed to a federal event do they no longer have a responsibility to their primary job? Maybe they only swarm like that when it's lucrative and a civil forfeiture is afoot.