Lack of police brain training for crisis management is bang off target

SOMEONE once said that news is all about shouting out that “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive in the first place.

The shootings in New York last week had a touch of the Lord Jones about them. Two people died. Only two. In wider New York in any one day, a lot more than two people tend to die at the wrong end of a firearm. Nine other people were injured. It was apparent, within minutes, that this was not a terrorist killing. So why did the world’s media get so excited about it?

The first answer has to be location.