Sheriff: Putting a Police Officer In Every School Won't End Threat
School Districts, police seek input from community on school safety issues.
Getting more school resource officers and security in schools has been touted as a solution to the issue of school safety in the weeks following the Newtown, Conn. shooting. But St. Charles County Sheriff Tom Neer said Tuesday in a meeting of the newly-formed Schools, Mental Health And Emergency Services Task Forc that having a school resource officer at schools won't eliminate the threat of a shooter at a school. He said it may deter someone from going to the school if they knew an officer was on duty, however, he pointed out that Columbine had an SRO on duty when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999. School Resource Officers were one of serveral topics discussed by the …
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Terry Cooper
11:42 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Tom Neer seems to think school resource officers won't eliminate the threat. I'd agree, but if he were at all honest he'd also admonish the fools in DC for thinking that banning inanimate objects like 30 round clips will have any effect. I say arm the teachers if they want to carry a gun. That in itself is a deterrent, you notice you never here of crazy people opening fire in a police station.. more ›