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San Diego Unified School District Gets Armored Vehicle (MRAP)
U-T San Diego ^ | Setember 9, 2014 | Kristina Davis

Posted on 09/10/2014 4:51:27 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

San Diego School District MRAP photo SanDiegoUnifiedSchoolDistrictMRAPRescueVehicle_zpsbe74ed5e.jpg

SD Unified gets armored vehicle

City schools police have obtained their own military-grade Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle through a federal grant.

Known as an MRAP, the armored mobile will be converted into a victim rescue vehicle that will be stocked with thousands of dollars in advanced medical supplies and be able to take heavy fire in case of an attack on campus, the San Diego Unified School District Police Department said Tuesday.

The MRAP, valued at more than $700,000, was acquired at no cost to the district. The vehicle is expected to be operational in October.

“We recognize the public concern over perceived ‘militarization of law enforcement,’ but nothing could be further from the truth for School Police,” Capt. Joe Florentino said in an email.

Much of that public concern erupted last month in the wake of unrest in Ferguson, Mo., where heavily militarized police squads reacted to crowds protesting the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. The White House is reviewing whether programs that equip local law police departments with military gear are appropriate and will study how the equipment is being used.

Florentino describes the district’s MRAP as the county’s only specifically designated victim rescue vehicle. It will be clearly marked “rescue,” as well as display large red cross on all sides, similar to an ambulance. It is able to climb up rapid floodwaters, pull down walls or ram through buildings to rescue trapped victims, Florentino said.

Schools police will train with firefighters and paramedics on how to insert medical teams into high-risk zones. Such techniques were born out of the 1999 Columbine school massacre, the captain said.

(Excerpt) Read more at utsandiego.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: backtoschool; boardofeducation; bravenewworld; dystopia; mrap; policestate; publiceducation; sandiego; schoolboard; schooldistrict; schoolpolice
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To: DogByte6RER

Government waste 101...


21 posted on 09/10/2014 6:54:12 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: DogByte6RER

Officer Friendly is now Officer Flashbang.


22 posted on 09/10/2014 6:54:53 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
it's not that it was that tough, it's the life style of living in the boondocks... hunting before school and or after school
23 posted on 09/10/2014 6:56:15 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: DogByte6RER

Well Alrighty then..

All we have to do is paint “Rescue” on all our firearms and all will be okay too

Pay attention Mark Kelly and Michael Blomberg


24 posted on 09/10/2014 7:02:34 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: DariusBane
Hey Bob. We can get a big fing MRAP!
Hot damn thats some cool shiite.
amn. The PTA will have a cow.
No worries just put som big fing red crosses on it.

And paint the word "RESCUE" on each side.

In "Warrior Cop" there was a section when the SWAT teams were first proposed in Los Angeles, and got a sympathetic ear from the chief. He asked what SWAT stood for and was told "Special Weapons Attack Team", and the chif had his own cow. "You cannot call it that!" Not missing a beat, the proponents said, "OK, we'll call it "Special Weapons Aid Team". The chief was happy and gave a dispensation for it to be so.

I imagine we'll see a lot more of these vehicles with "RESCUE" on them, and the rings painted on their gun barrels will be the amount of "rescues" they made (cough).

25 posted on 09/10/2014 7:49:40 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: DogByte6RER

No worries from me, just thought people commenting on the later thread might want to see how the conversation developed in the earlier one. Lots of interesting perspectives.


26 posted on 09/10/2014 8:25:49 PM PDT by Defiant (4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
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To: DogByte6RER
“We recognize the public concern over perceived ‘militarization of law enforcement,’ but nothing could be further from the truth for School Police,” Capt. Joe Florentino said in an email.

Well, then I guess we have nothing to worry about -- unless his emails suddenly disappear...

27 posted on 09/11/2014 3:02:53 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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