False sense of security. Police departments receive large numbers of false alarms. Most police do not respond promptly to alarm drops of any kind. Call your local police department and ask if they respond "signal 5" to alarm drops. My experience (retired police officer) is your local department will tell you alarms do not call for a high priority response. Even if the police did respond promptly, they are still several minutes away. The damage is done and the violator long gone before help arrives.
Lockdown: (only one entrance to the school) Great if monitored by an armed trained person. If unarmed, you simply have set up your first casualty. If only monitored by video cameras, you will have a nice video to give to the deceased children's families.
Evacuate: (leave the threatened area). There is a person with a firearm shooting children and we need a guy with a Phd to tell us we need to leave the area where the threat is located? Wow!
Hide: In seconds the school is going to hide entire classrooms of children. Yeah, right.
A Panic Button: By the time anyone responds to a "Panic Button" the damage is over. There is a saying, "When seconds count, the police are minutes away." This is no attack on police, but it is simply the truth. A button does not cause an armed police officer to instantly appear.
Remove "Gun Free Zone" Signs: Seriously? Everyone knows guns are illegal in schools, especially persons who have knowledge of a particular school. What would happen if there was a sign on the doors of schools that said something like, "WARNING: ALL SCHOOL PERSONNEL ARE ARMED AND TRAINED". Now that would be the first step in pulling your head out of the sand. All of these tragedies occurred in areas where there are no defense weapons.
Control entrance to schools with armed security officers, and have trained police officers to patrol the school. If budgets can't allow this, at least allow school employees to be trained and armed. Now that is how to keep your head out of the sand.
Volunteers plan search for Niles time capsule
Wow. Only in Niles can a class bury a "time capsule" and not write down where they buried it.
April 24, 2013 at 7:04 a.m. permalink suggest removal
LifeLine personal safety app will notify cops in 20 seconds
False sense of security. Police departments receive large numbers of false alarms. Most police do not respond promptly to alarm drops of any kind. Call your local police department and ask if they respond "signal 5" to alarm drops. My experience (retired police officer) is your local department will tell you alarms do not call for a high priority response. Even if the police did respond promptly, they are still several minutes away. The damage is done and the violator long gone before help arrives.
March 3, 2013 at 3:01 a.m. permalink suggest removal
What would you do if an armed intruder came to your school?
Lockdown: (only one entrance to the school) Great if monitored by an armed trained person. If unarmed, you simply have set up your first casualty. If only monitored by video cameras, you will have a nice video to give to the deceased children's families.
Evacuate: (leave the threatened area). There is a person with a firearm shooting children and we need a guy with a Phd to tell us we need to leave the area where the threat is located? Wow!
Hide: In seconds the school is going to hide entire classrooms of children. Yeah, right.
A Panic Button: By the time anyone responds to a "Panic Button" the damage is over. There is a saying, "When seconds count, the police are minutes away." This is no attack on police, but it is simply the truth. A button does not cause an armed police officer to instantly appear.
Remove "Gun Free Zone" Signs: Seriously? Everyone knows guns are illegal in schools, especially persons who have knowledge of a particular school. What would happen if there was a sign on the doors of schools that said something like, "WARNING: ALL SCHOOL PERSONNEL ARE ARMED AND TRAINED". Now that would be the first step in pulling your head out of the sand. All of these tragedies occurred in areas where there are no defense weapons.
Control entrance to schools with armed security officers, and have trained police officers to patrol the school. If budgets can't allow this, at least allow school employees to be trained and armed. Now that is how to keep your head out of the sand.
March 1, 2013 at 3:25 a.m. permalink suggest removal