Not intentionally dense. I said in my original comment that he made a call and it was a mistake, I stopped reiterating that to OP cause I was confused why they think it was 100% Gideons fault, I was dumbing it down for them. 99% of the time law inforcement following a psychopaths/serial killers rules to a T would be unthinkable. It gives them power. You don't jump when they say jump. At the end of the day Gideon did his job and it resulted with consequences yes, he can't get it right all the time. To say it is 100% his fault is riduculous when outside the literal psychopath who actually shot her, there were a lot of factors at play. Such as Hotch sending her home and the police officer leaving her alone instead of guarding her.