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I wouldn't want the teachers armed here, but I do think it is time to have every entrance with video cameras along with the parking lot, etc., so if someone strange approaches the school, the school gets locked down automatically including classrooms and the police immediately notified.

I think surveillance cameras are a must today at the schools with someone monitoring them while school is in session.

surveillance cameras are a joke. first of all, they don't prevent anytning at best they record events. Secondly, for them to be any kind of warnign device, they have to be monitored on a constant basis by people on perpatual alert. difficult to do for long periods fo time without going stir crazy.

And going into lockdown mode takes time, in a situations where time is critical, how long does it take to locate and contact someone with lockdown authority - and how long does it take that person (who will most likely have questions before giving the order) to order a lockdown?

Then there's the mechanism for the lockdown. how do you
communicate a lockdown? Via public address? that also alerts the perp. Then you have to physically do the locking (Many doors are not kept locked, and many teachers don't have keys anyway.

And what do you do with people in public areas? In the hallways? rest rooms? Outside?

And do you really want to notify the police everytime someone "strange" (whatever that means) approaches? Maybe it's a parent you just don't recognize? or the new sales rep for one of your vendors? Or any number of other scenarios?

All you'd do would be to desensitize folks to alarms - for false alarms would be rife.

and you never explained why you wouldn't want your teachers armed. what are you afraid they'd do?

so if someone strange approaches the school, the school gets locked down automatically including classrooms and the police immediately notified.

I think surveillance cameras are a must today at the schools with someone monitoring them while school is in session.

Wishful thinking...I just wish it could be that simple, yet what do the students and faculty do in the 15 mins it takes for cops to show up? The 30 mins it takes for a command post and medical evac site set up? 20 mins for a negotiator to get there?

You have set up a perfect kill zone for the crazies....locked in and unarmed. The crazy person would just shoot out the door and come in and start the massacre. Responding Police and Swat would be in a "killzone" as soon as they came through the once "strong point".

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