Your posts are so naive, you know nothing about the state of policing, or how to defend a school. My husband, who is an expert on security (over 20 years in Navy as an operator), read your post and almost spit out his coffee laughing.
Given what follows and the peculiar similarities in opinion and language between you and "him" I have no reason to believe "he's" more than an extension of your imagination.
Your suggestion of one dedicated policeman was particularly funny to him.
Actually not my proposal. I said a policeman (or more, depending on the size of the school) dedicated to the task of monitoring and responding. One of my best friends retired as a Master Sergeant in the Marines running MPs out of the Palms. He doesn't agree with your imaginary friend's assessment.
I believe he said, "Every one would know who the guy was, and he would just be the first person the perp killed, only an idiot would suggest something so easy to defeat.
Only someone who hadn't read me and who is most likely you would say that. These attacks aren't being carried out by boy geniuses or skilled tacticians. They're essentially crude plans, effective mostly because they're unopposed in execution, which is why when they're confronted they tend to kill themselves and their plans fall apart.
At any rate my suggestion ended at the policeman or policemen armed and dedicated to the one task given a point of observation, monitoring the entrances. The rest is your invention and your invention's invention.
Now an actual, real live person, the Marine now working in law enforcement, did have a bit of constructive advice. He said a potential problem in my lock down/buzz in was that in the morning and evening you'd have bottlenecks which would be ideal for someone trying to shoot or bomb and kill a lot of people. He suggested additional support at that time for multiple entrances and an outside (literally) presence at those times. Otherwise he liked the plan, allowing for adding more officers where the school size (and population) dictated.
He also mentioned that police budgets are being cut all over the country, and they do not have the man power available to actually protect schools.
It wouldn't take as much as training large numbers of teachers every year and the additional insurance and other expenses. Also, the officers involved could be part of the regular force, rotating in and out during the school year and otherwise a part of the normal operations of their respective PDs. Their additional training would be of benefit to the communities they serve.
Our county seat has struggled with budget difficulties and cutbacks. Department heads have had to be pretty creative with their resources, but if we can't prioritize the safety of our children we might as well fold tent. And again, my proposal should be less expensive than any other actual proposal set out here so far.
What we really have here is a gross misallocation of resources. School districts spending way too much money on Principal and Admin salaries (huge six figure amounts), and ignoring their responsibility to provide adequate security.
I know teachers who'd agree with the first part. I don't think the second is true. The principle who died at Sandy Hook had put in place a program aimed at making her school safer, but she needed my guy in place and didn't have him.
1. You can not ignore perimeter security like this moron does.
I didn't ignore it so much as not respond to it, given that most of the school killings have occurred inside the campus area and that was my concentration. I was talking about on campus measures that would have prevented what happened in Sandy Hook. If that's difficult to afford patrolling perimeters is a fairly tale.
2. The average policeman does not shoot well enough to deal with an active shooter situation in a crowded school. You will need at least experienced S.W.A.T. level shooters.
What part of training didn't you or your imaginary friend understand? One of the first things I noted to Trad was the impact of adrenaline and emotions on a shooter as part of what made the "arm the teachers" proposal a disaster waiting to happen.
3. Our children are a lot more valuable than a lot of things I have guarded in my career.
You got that much right.
4. You will need at least two people armed at each school that the general population can not know are armed, otherwise they become the first to be killed, and the mass shootings happen anyway, because there is no one left to respond.
It would be difficult to have people moving about with weapons without people knowing who they were and if the weapons were sufficiently hidden and the students managed to get weapons into the facility it would be a simple matter to shoot every adult you saw and if you did know which adults were the carriers they could be put at a significant tactical disadvantage by virtue of having to retrieve the hidden guns.
Again, sweep the school in the morning, check students through at the door and restrict access to buzz ins while the officer monitors activity and points of access. He's not putting his weapon(s) within reach of children or potential killers. He's in a position to respond quickly and effectively against an amateur who's likely unhinged.
5. The risk to accidents have nothing to do with the number of guns on a school campus, and every thing to do with the skill of the men carrying them.
No, he's a figment or that's just you again. No one who has any training with weapons would make that asinine a statement. A person trying to conceal a weapon while concentrating on other tasks presents a number of dangers. He isn't an effective guardian of his weapon or his charges.
6. This clown describes behavior patterns in his recommendations, and that is the exact opposite of what the security function needs to do. They need to be unpredictable, and hard to identify, so as many as possible are available to counter an attack.
No. Your imagination should have read me more carefully and engaged me substantively. As with my Marine friend, I'm not above taking counsel or hashing a thing out. The larger schools was a decent example, even if my operating principle remained intact.
I must say, after reading your garbage, and then listening to a real security expert speak, you remind me of a babbling kindergartner. :guitar:
That's because you and your imaginary friend aren't rational, are so emotionally embroiled in this impulse control issue that you can't help yourself.
As always, a pleasure.
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