re: Breaking: 18 children and 1 teacher dead in Texas elementary school shooting.

Idk man. Those are painted black and super scary so I’m saying both.

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There are loads of school districts with SROs. They aren’t usually at every school.

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Not true in my experience. There are several parishes in Louisiana that have sheriffs officers at every single school, including private ones. I was unaware that this isn’t the case everywhere.

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If your school has 1000 kids, you likely have an SRO on campus. If you have less than 1000, you likely don’t.

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News to me. I know of many smaller schools in LA that all have SRO’s.

But even if you’re correct on how many schools don’t have them, why is it not a possible solution to provide them everywhere? Money?

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why is it not a possible solution to provide them everywhere?

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There are no solutions. There are only trade offs.

If you could convince me that by expending an additional $50k/yr per school would result in halving our school shootings, I would be on board.

On a sheer dollar cost basis, it would be a wild proposition. Perhaps that’s ok, especially in the short term.

To add a $50k SRO to half the schools would be $6B/year. (250k public schools currently).

That’s $6B/year to try to ameliorate the effects of ~17 shootings per year with ~11 deaths/yr.

Or $600M per death.

18 children is the count now

and 3 adults

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If you could convince me that by expending an additional $80k/yr per school would result in halving our school shootings, I would be on board.

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I promise you that SRO’s aren’t getting anywhere near 80k.

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To add a $50k SRO to half the schools would be $6B/year. (250k public schools currently).

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Spread out across a very very large number of districts, where the funding would come from, I don’t see that as an insurmountable number. frick we keep shipping 5x that number to Ukraine every couple of weeks. If we think adding a trained and armed officer to every school would decrease the severity of these events (either from deterrence or counter action), that is the type of government spending I’ll get behind.

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I'm pretty sure all of our middle schools and up have them.

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Elementary too in some places (I guess not all?). Surprises me that LA is “ahead” on that.

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To add a $50k SRO to half the schools would be $6B/year. (250k public schools currently).

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We just sent $40 billion to Ukraine. that will do nothing for American kids.

19 > 3 and in some cases security was inept and didn’t do their job. It’s also not the only measure you take, my kids school is totally locked down, nobody’s getting in there and if you had real security at the few access points the likelihood of something happening is next to 0.

I’m still not sure how SRO’s wouldn’t be at least a partial measure here. Idk how it could be argued that it would not help prevent loss of life (Parkland would be the exception here, and an example of what happens when cowards wear the badge).

There is no “solution” if we are being honest.