Nearly 750 hours of video and 2,000 calls to 911 in Vegas shooting. Almost all of it remains unseen and unheard
'"That is really the only excuse for withholding any information or delaying its release — an active investigation," Smith said. '
'"Even then, you should make some argument beyond that why the release of the information will hurt you and that isn't a line of thinking we get to see. '
' In this case, there appears to be zero reason for withholding any public information."'
Excerpt from article could identify a pattern of information withholding based upon the nature of each massacre:
After the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., police were sued for the release of 911 calls, and it took a court order to make them public about five months after 49 people were killed in 2016.
In Newtown, Conn., 911 calls were made public almost a year after the 2012 massacre that left 26 people dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In both cases, neither shooter survived — though Noor Salman, the wife of Omar Mateen, is currently standing trial on charges she aided her husband in the Pulse attack.
In Aurora, Colo., where James E. Holmes killed 12 people at a movie theater in 2012, the 911 calls were public in just more than a week. Holmes survived and stood trial.
Last month, when 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., 911 calls and surveillance video were released about three weeks later, though an attorney representing the media said he was not convinced all the surveillance video had been released. The Parkland shooter was taken into custody and is awaiting trial.
Interest in the information was high, and arguments for not releasing it came down to whether the material would present a danger to law enforcement by exposing tactics and techniques or assist in providing tools for how to improve responses to such tragedies.
The next court hearing for the release of 911 calls and body-camera footage in Las Vegas is set for late April — six months after the shooting
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derram ago
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'"That is really the only excuse for withholding any information or delaying its release — an active investigation," Smith said. '
'"Even then, you should make some argument beyond that why the release of the information will hurt you and that isn't a line of thinking we get to see. '
' In this case, there appears to be zero reason for withholding any public information."'
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TheAntiZealot ago
Excerpt from article could identify a pattern of information withholding based upon the nature of each massacre: