Posted on 06/06/2022 8:03:48 AM PDT by Salman
Albany pols passed a law Saturday requiring school districts statewide to seriously consider installing silent panic alarms to alert law-enforcement authorities during emergencies.
The state Assembly approved “Alyssa’s Law,” named after 14-year-old Alyssa Alhadeff, who was shot and killed in 2018 during the Parkland, Florida school massacre.
“Schools should be a safe place for our kids to learn and grow,” said Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement announcing the bill’s passage.
Alyssa’s Law will force each school district’s safety teams to consider installing panic alarm systems and other direct communication technologies as part of their mandatory regular reviews of safety plans.
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And what do they expect the police to do? Go in and stop a crime in progress?
It's New York. Look into the connections of whoever will be selling the alarms.
Look for a bump in school taxes to “fund” this.
Exactly. The alarm companies will make millions but the kids will be less safe. NYC cops busting in to save the day?? laugh.
The police will stand outside eating donuts.
Color me shocked as this is from New York, and it’s not a bad idea. Maybe give each staff member one of those personal alarm buttons you wear around your neck.
Pushing a button will summon help a heck of a lot faster than trying to get to the nearest phone.
Of course, if the police get there fast but then just stand around, it will all be for nothing. But I guess that’s a topic for another thread.
Doesn't matter anyway since the demon rat agenda is not to make schools safer but to pretend doing something. The arrogance with which the demon rats seek to fool the people shows they hold us in contempt, believing we are not worthy of 'their truth' and must be manipulated into serfdom.
Exactly, that and some video surveillance in halls and classrooms that LEO can access. As well as LOCKED doors and one entrance with an armed resource officer.
In NYC, you could have 2,000 police standing around.
No matter how rapid the communication of the alarm system may be, it is the response time of the law enforcement officers both in in arriving at the scene and the actions they take to neutralize the active shooter that is the real need to be addressed.
First order of business, eliminate “gun-free zones”.
Relabel them for what they are, “Target practice galleys for terrorists”.
“Gun-free zones” cease to be gun-free the moment a terrorist steps in bearing a weapon, whether it is legal or illicit.
If it is the desire to slow or stop those bearers of weapons from entry to a specified areas, make the locality a single-entry area, with something called a “man-trap”. A man-trap consists of a set of two interlocking doors that cannot be open simultaneously. Enter first door, and the first door has to close before the second door can be opened. Keep this vestibule area under constant video surveillance, with a remote operator, and put the entry and passage doors under the control of the operator. The outer door may open, but the passage door cannot.
This system works really, really well in controlled-access office buildings and apartment residences.
Oh yeah - that would’ve worked so well in Uvalde while the police waited around outside!
Unlike the Democrats, I am willing to consider different solutions.
I wrote consider, not immediately implement.
I would like to see the data on this as well as simulations run.
I would also like to see The Opportunity Costs.
Maybe give each staff member one of those personal alarm buttons you wear around your neck.
In the thread on the Seattle principal refusing to cooperate with police while a guy was stealing from kids’ backpacks someone commented that avoiding bad publicity was administrators’ top priority.
> In the thread on the Seattle principal refusing to cooperate with police while a guy was stealing from kids’ backpacks someone commented that avoiding bad publicity was administrators’ top priority. <
Ha! That was me. And yes, you’re right about resistance from school administrators. As I noted in that other thread, I was an urban school teacher for many years. We were told to never call the city police in case of trouble. We were to only call our (unarmed!) school police. That way the school district could control what went in the police reports.
So, yeah. To get alarms in schools, the administrators have to be bypassed. Only a state law can do that.
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Florida & New Jersey already passed this law
Why not just create an app? Everyone’s got a phone. Write an app and have teachers register with the system. A few taps on the phone and the cops know where to go and what’s happening.
1) Start app
2) Choose situation
3) Choose room number
4) Send
Cops have layout of school and have preplanned potential access/observation points.
Easy peasy.
“one entrance with an armed resource officer”
Wasn’t it an “armed resource officer” that went and hid at Parkland in Fl?
What good will that do if the cops just mill around outside? Plenty of people at Uvalde used their cell phones to call police. Didn’t do much good.
That only works if you actually have cops wanting to make entry, instead of milling around outside.
The kids will constantly push those.
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