Dallas School District Opts Out of Deputized Marshal Program

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 12 July 2013 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

Dallas Independent School District Police Chief Craig Miller announced that his district will not be participating in a new program permitting school employees to be deputized and trained to assist in providing security.

“If schools are concerned about deterring armed assailants they should be hiring more police, not arming the teachers,” Miller asserted. “The notion that part-time amateurs could substitute for full-time professionals disrespects our profession. The use of deadly force ought to be restricted to fully qualified police officers.”

The new law is predicated on the belief that attackers would be dissuaded by the fear that a widespread possession of concealed firearms among the staff could thwart their efforts to maximize the body-count in any assault on the school. “The cost of hiring enough additional police to provide the coverage that could be achieved by deputizing a trained cadre of in-school personnel is beyond the budgetary grasp of most school districts,” said State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas), author of the law. “Training and arming the school staff is a cost-effective means for warding off criminals bent on murdering our children.”

“I call your attention to Representative Villalba’s use of the phrase ‘cost-effective,’” Miller countered. “He is putting the hypothetical benefit of his program ahead of the plain fact that he isn’t willing to spend money to ensure that sufficient police are funded.”

“Saving these kids’ lives is at least as important as teaching them the three ‘Rs,’” Miller argued. “If we’re going to fund a teacher in every room we ought to be willing to fund a police officer in every room. Surely that would be the ultimate deterrent to any criminal.”

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[1L]

This is a political stunt. The Dallas ISD has its own police force — similar to a college — and they also have security personnel. I don’t know for sure whether the security works under the police’s umbrella, but I do know several people who work for either the police division or the security detail.

There are few Texas ISDs that have their own police force. Since the statement didn’t mention the fact that DISD has, essentially, armed personnel in their buildings now, its completely dishonest.

[kingu]

We need police officers in our schools!

Well, no, we don't. We need police officers out of schools. How many children have picked up criminal records for the typical little stunts that teens and preteens commit? Far too many in my opinion. Schools should be a place of learning, not an investigation site.

As for adults being armed and deputized - as I've repeatedly asserted, no one can grant you your rights; they are your rights. You have a right to be armed. Saying that someone doesn't have the right unless they are deputized is a wholesale abridgment of those rights. And again, it is simply another manner of placing officers in schools.

How many times do we have to go over the same territory in this country? Schools made into gun free zones, or as criminals like to view it, target rich environments. Schools put in metal detectors and searches, and gosh, look, weapons still get through. Schools put in zero thinking... err, zero tolerance rules that immediately expel someone for bringing a weapon, making a weapon, imagining a weapon, saying the word gun, and not so shockingly, bad things still happen.

When I was growing up, I knew some of my teachers were armed. I knew that if I brought a gun to school, I'd get a paddling, and that’d continue when I get home and my father got ahold of me.

Liberals, however, live in their own fantasy world, and rather than realistically look at something, and realize it is not working, they want to keep doing the same thing, expecting different results will magically appear.