{"id":55149,"date":"2014-09-12T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55149"},"modified":"2014-09-12T08:07:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T12:07:57","slug":"the-militarization-of-school-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55149","title":{"rendered":"The Militarization of School Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

This comes from KHOU<\/a>\u00a0out of Houston Texas<\/p>\n

Jonn has posted about the Militarization of Police here\u00a0<\/a>and here<\/a>\u00a0but it seems that no less than 10 Texas School Districts are using the DOD program to get M16s, body armor, militarily vehicles, ammunition and other goodies. Remember this is the same DOD program that has been \u00a0so successfully managed by police departments around the country. That was sarcasm by the way.<\/p>\n

State records show 10 different school district police departments in Texas received military surplus equipment, including trucks, guns, and armor, through a Department of Defense program. The districts include the following:<\/p>\n

Frenship ISD<\/b><\/p>\n

Texarkana ISD<\/b><\/p>\n

LaJoya ISD<\/b><\/p>\n

Linden-Kildare CISD<\/b><\/p>\n

Aledo ISD<\/b><\/p>\n

Beaumont ISD<\/b><\/p>\n

Ector County ISD<\/b><\/p>\n

San Antonio ISD<\/b><\/p>\n

Edinburg CISD<\/b><\/p>\n

Spring Branch ISD<\/b><\/p>\n

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These are K-12 school districts. My question is how did the DOD give this stuff to them? Is there no oversight? Yea I know that they use Sandy Hook, Columbine and others as a reason. But come on. do they really think those tragedies would have been averted if the school district had been armed better than some NG units?<\/p>\n

In all, the departments received 64 M16 rifles, 18 M14 rifles, 25 automatic pistols, and magazines capable of holding 4,500 rounds of ammunition as well armored plating, tactical vests, and 15 surplus military vehicles.<\/p>\n

Under the program, school police departments received the equipment at little-to-no cost. But not everyone’s thrilled.<\/p>\n

“We don’t necessarily believe that this kind of equipment leads to students feeling more secure and safe in schools,” said Brennan Griffin of Texas Appleseed.<\/p>\n

The group has studied school police polices for years. Griffin calls news that military rifles have found new homes in Texas schools “concerning.”<\/p>\n

“We’ve seen how even much less-lethal devices like tasers and pepper spray get used inappropriately and end up harming children,” he told the I-Team.<\/p>\n

Locally, Spring Branch ISD police received 10 automatic pistols and 13 rifles.<\/p>\n

Police Chief Brawner says the rifles are available only for use by tactically-trained officers in an emergency. He says when not being used in training, the military weapons are locked in the department’s armory.<\/p>\n

But Griffin cites studies showing the typical active-shooter crisis lasts only about 12 minutes.<\/p>\n

“It’s hard to see how an officer would be able to gain access to the armory, bring it to the school, assess the situation and somehow use that weapon in the time that a school shooting usually occurs,” said Griffin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We already have problems with police stationed in schools being used to enforce school policy instead of the law. I can see a situation being escalated by the fact that the systems have this equipment so they feel they must use it. An upset parent or student being confronted by police in Body Armor and M16s instead of a principle or counselor that is willing to sit down and find resolution.<\/p>\n

Having school systems own equipmet like this is a very bad idea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This comes from KHOU\u00a0out of Houston Texas Jonn has posted about the Militarization of Police here\u00a0and … The Militarization of School Police<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}