Baltimore County Police are increasing patrols at local public schools without resource officers after a Friday morning shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
County Executive Kevin Kamenetz posted on his Facebook page that the police department has instituted a "Keep a Check" program for all Baltimore County schools without resource officers. Police will drop by every school, walk through and ensure that everything is secure.
Kamenetz writes that the walk-throughs will occur multiple times per shift. He notes that Police Chief Jim Johnson is keeping in regular contact with national law enforcement officials and Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent S. Dallas Dance.
The officers will continue the patrols beyond Friday for an unspecified amount of time, the county executive wrote.
Louise Rogers-Feher, a police spokeswoman, confirmed the increased patrols.
"They’ve been directed to go to the schools, talk to the principals, make an appearance so that people realize that we know what’s going on," she said.
A gunman allegedly killed 27 people, including 18 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, according to Newtown Patch. The gunman was reportedly found dead inside the school.
Charles Herndon, a Baltimore County spokesman, said there is no threat to Baltimore County schools but Dance and Johnson had thought the additional patrols were needed as a precaution and to alleviate worry. He noted that the schools without resource officers were primarily elementary schools.
"On behalf of Baltimore County Public Schools, I send our heartfelt sympathy to all the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School who are mourning the loss of life of their children and loved ones," Dance said in a release. "We are saddened and outraged by the tragedy."
According to the statement, Dance has asked the school system's department of safety and security to review current crisis plans.
and seriously .. looking at the one's that didn't cap themselves .. a nut or sociopath doesn't really give a damn about the deadly drip .. and even then it just might be a case of a modified "suicide by cop" only letting the state being the doer.. and of course you have to take into account thge death penalty has on suicide bombers.. get the point?
There was one or two occasions tragedy has happened in the 1930's, but when media tells us an inanimate object was the cause. that just don't cut it. In Arbutus people were painting cleaning up the neighborhood from the "direct cause". Arbutus was brainwashed to only look at the DIRECT CAUSE until the hand made park bench was broken and vandalized. Then the community realized that it was "ROOT CAUSE"! human behavior and started to change the way to deal by banding together being neighbors looking out and reporting suspicious behavior, attacking root cause. Everyone see's the DIRECT CAUSE but fail to look at the ROOT CAUSE. I noticed this tragic event that the media may have turned away from blaming inanimate objects? Humans are able to adapt just look at the gangs with guns..............
Fort Hood, is a great example, the cause of the shooting was due to being political correctness fails natures/human reasoning. They were aware of the issues that the killer had issues but failed to do the right thing even moving him to another base. It could have been avoided if the took the DIRECT CAUSE of this man actions and correct it by ROOT CAUSE. By moving him to another base allowed let his mind to manifest to another level, changing his action of ROOT CAUSE to manifest to a greater DIRECT CAUSE. Failure is humanity! The failure to cure or change help or the root cause But keep these tragic actions by misdirecting the issue to the inanimate object. WE will see this again and again or that's why we are seeing it again and again. Go ahead and blame the inanimate object and we will see more.
no details on the atopsoes such as placement and number of bullet wounds will be disclosed for obvious reasons" .. and NBC stated that they (NBC) will not seek interviews with family members of the victims or first respondrers out of deference to their feeling. If they desire an interview, they shoud seek us out."t
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/12/newtown-and-the-madness-of-guns.html#ixzz2FEh24bJL
as for the Local authorities..this is a national event .. no long a locxal event ... FBI .. ATF .. FEMA (yes.. have to check for future refernce for first responder reaction.. counseling) .. NSA and DoDInt (for computer reconstruction) ....and a bunchor other folks ..and I bet there's a task force just working on the Russian semi-auto shotgun that was stashed in the nut's car trunk ...
steve's stand is like saying those who support the war are responsible for abu grahe.
http://news.yahoo.com/ind-man-47-guns-arrested-school-threat-164928349.html .....and the beat goes on..
He did say it did happen. Reporting the news is good to get the "message" out. Sometimes the reporters fall over themselves trying to get all the information out regardless if it affects the investigation or infringes on the privacy of the grief stricken families.Lets hope the message gets out that this is not the way to solve a problem. As you said, don't need a person looking to outdo the body count in every instance.
I had commented that Obama was clearly upset - would this change his antics and if so how long? Well, what happened. Hillary Clinton has a concussion and is unable to speak about Libya on Thursday. How convenient!
In this tragic incident the death penalty would not have changed anything. But with the day to day murders it may be a deterrent.
let me ask you how in the world can u drink this kool-aid you r being handed by the bcpd when they do not even have enough officers to cover partrols at times and takes forever to respond to calls as it is and while these same officers are walking school grounds this will open more windows for criminals to attack and have more time to escape while these officers area trying to get back to their cars to respond..good attempt at public relations..but we know the truth..and this is only trying to get the cows once they are on the loose..
Yet, the government can't be trusted to ban certain weapons, or impose restrictions on certain firearms being sold to potential nutcases ,,, to protect our precious little children or grandchildren???? (Hasn't everyone saw the pictures of those little innocent beautiful 6 and 7 year-olds that were shot for no reason in CT????) Which rights taken away from us, and violated, would be worse??????? (1) Not being able to watch someone take a drink of Samuel Adams on a tv commercial - take a puff of a Marlboro on tv .....OR (2) Banning the sales of AR15's or other assault rifles, and yes, even 9mm handguns to the general public ..... If Noah Pozner were still around, I wonder what his opinion would be .......
I would liken this event to a head on crash between a tour bus full of seniors and a school bus full of children...caused by alcohol and prescription drugs...It's terribly tragic but no law can possibly stop the accident.