“Our schools have done ‘surprise’ drills before with police cooperation and observation.”
Do these ‘surprise’ drills include someone who plays the role of a shooter? If so who do they choose for the role? A police officer? Also you sidestepped my question as to when the most recent drill occurred. Can you get a bit more specific?
And yes, I am ‘starviego.’
We have resource officers in our secondary schools, police officers who work for the city but we pay a portion of their salary and they work out of our schools. A friend of mine told me of one drill that happened coordinated by the resource officer that involved a different plain-clothed officer who pulled up in front of the school, got out of his car, went to the trunk and pulled out a large rifle. The resource officer observed how the office staff reacted as they called 911 (who had been alerted about the upcoming call in advance), called for a school-wide lockdown, etc. The principal knew about an upcoming drill but not the specifics of what/when. Afterwards they debriefed and went over the lessons learned (such as making sure to actively notice details of a suspects description, vehicle description, etc.).
I don’t know specifically the date of each school’s last drill or what that drill consisted of, as that is not my department. I do know the administrator who is in charge of our emergency planning, and we have won awards from the Red Cross for our work on opening and staffing an evacuation center at our high school during the huge fire in the area a couple of years ago. I have also attended a training he coordinated in search & rescue techniques put on by the fire department in an abandoned building that was as real as can be simulated.
I can see that you choose to continue to believe your pet theory. I choose to believe my friends who were eye-witnesses to the events as they happened. I don’t believe that you are receptive to changing your opinion, and I’m not going to waste my time with you.