School Security

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There has been a lot of press in recent weeks about mass school shootings.  The most important factor is to keep the children safe.  There are two ways to do that.  One way is to make the schools a secure area.  Putting up a little sign and passing a law does not provide a secure area for schools anymore than it did for airports.  That means lots of guards, police, guns, metal detectors and fences.  This is very expensive.  The other way is to recognize that people have a right to self defense and allow the school employees to be armed if they so desire to carry a weapon.  It works in Israel and they are under greater terrorist threat than any other place on earth.

In the meantime, what can we do to help keep the kids safe?  My agency has started paying Reserve Officers to work at the schools.  They get paid up to 20 hours per week and have to still contribute their reserve time for free.  One officer at a large high school is not going to catch every criminal, still it is better than doing nothing.

I suspect it is much better than nothing because it will create uncertainty in the mind of a potential attacker.  The officer could be off duty, or could be just around the next corner.  It creates a significant risk factor for the criminal.  It may be enough to deter the criminal so he either does not strike the school or he selects another target.  Our schools are physically not very large so even one officer on site would be very close to any attack, and would almost certainly be able to respond to the sound of gunfire.  A giant campus, like Virginia Tech, did not have that advantage; that's what the SGT Says.