Comments on: Thomas: Armed Security Coming To All Schools, Fulltime SRO’s Already Return To Northview, Ernest Ward

By: northofI10

northofI10 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:17:10 +0000

Of course most appreciate a law enforcement presence in schools and they are needed all the time. Applaud those that understand and remind all that it was this current sheriff that threw a temper tantrum and pulled them out rather than doing what was needed.

By: A

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:21:18 +0000

Every employee from the security companies needs to be SUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper Vetted. Just must.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:58:07 +0000

@ High School SRO’s

First, Thank You and God Bless you.

You are the Only Law Enforcement Officers who are immediately accessible on our school campuses no matter the grade levels.
You are the Only ones on campus with the legal power of arrest and detention.
You not only maintain and manage the unruly kids and often out-of-control parents, you offer guidance, direction and help to kids who may be on the verge of doing something that will result in bad things.
I know personally that you walk and talk with kids who tell you things their hearts and lives cannot share with others.
SRO’s just wanting to say Thank You for being there for our kids, teachers and parents.
For the older group that reads here, school is not as it was 20-30 years ago. Society is not what it was then either nor are the laws and rules.

High Schools, Middle Schools, Elementary Schools are like small cities nowadays and nobody knows that better than the Principal, Admin, Teachers and the School Resource Officers. Y’all All are Amazing.

By: High School SROs

High School SROs — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:02:18 +0000

Ya’ll comment like School Resource Officer’s get paid to sit in an office and wait for a school shooting. There is vandalism, thefts, fights, battery charges, drugs on campus, sexual harassment, sexual assaults, trespassers, students get Baker Acted, etc.

SROs are also readily available to take student reports of physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, etc.

The demanding role of a SRO is physically and emotionally exhausting. They do not get paid to just sit in an office all day. As a high school teacher, I truly appreciate their dedication towards our youth. It has been a very difficult year with only one SRO on campus.

By: jerry

jerry — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 06:13:05 +0000

I dont trust armed teachers, but if they have specific officers for security that have been well /highly trained for those situations then i think its a good move

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 03:56:36 +0000

REGARDING:
“There is no price too great to pay to keep a kid, teachers or anyone alive. You sound like there is a $ amount attached to human life.”

Sure there’s a number. A bunch of numbers.

Assume $100/hour, 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year, 40 years working/lifetime. (I know $100/hour is high but you are free to pick a higher or lower one.) $8.32 million.

If you spend more than that to save a life, you spent more than a life to save a life. People would die while earning enough to save the other life. You would be backing up.

And consider the 480,000 deaths per year in the USA alone. Just round up to half a million. Surely you could save all those lives if you spent $4.16 trillion dollars per year to cure all the smoking related deaths. Of course, the federal budget last year was only $3.8 trillion so you would have to more than triple taxes to cover it.

I doubt you are willing to do that.

You can greatly cut your chance of being killed while driving by lowering possible speed to 30 miles per hour. That would also roughly double the part of your life spend driving or riding.

I doubt you are willing to do that.

David for honesty

By: john

john — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 14:08:38 +0000

God is the real answer. We should fall on our faces to Jesus and repent…cry out to God!!! And then teach our children, and then Lord willing they will walk with God, and prayerfully that would be a generational blessing.

As far as school security goes, it could come to a point where there is too much and it becomes an unbearable burden. Not just financially but mentally. An example would be a student’s book bag is checked three times before they even make it in the classroom. That kind of thing and so on and so forth.

By: my thoughts

my thoughts — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 13:32:42 +0000

It is obvious that some people who don’t work in schools have absolutely NO CLUE what goes on on a daily basis. There are students with mental illness, students with depression, and violent students. Yes, even in elementary schools. We know that many of these students who exhibit extreme behaviors have either jail/prison, or an early grave in their futures. I, for one, will be grateful for the “good guys” with the guns that will be placed in our schools. The elementary schools need them just as much as the middle and the high schools. Yes, go ahead and put some on “problem” school buses as well. We need all the help we can get.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 13:31:37 +0000

We should train and arm bus drivers, and other support personnel, as well.

By: Grand Locust

Grand Locust — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:16:30 +0000

In Santa Rosa LEO on Sundays and often Wed. has squads outside churches and are paid by the church. When Students are going to the school in the morning Santa Rosa sheriff has squads outside schools. It should be a high priority for the sheriff to have squads at schools in the morning and evening when students are coming and going, and the school district could pay off duty officers directly for additional income. A secure school during the day, with LEO present on student arrival and departure gives officers additional income, cuts the school expenses, and gives us safe students. It makes NO sense to pay an armed officer to sit in a school all day. Yes, there can be rotating armed LEO moving from school to school, and I would strongly recommend that the rotation of these officers involve school buses because in my opinion this is the greatest risk to students in transportation of students where any crazy with a gun can by pass secure schools. Have 25% of your bus drivers with conceal and carry permits on buses, and rotating Leo. Yea, taxpayer money is important because the needs are so important and the priorities seem to be backwards and costly.