Keep in mind that are over 130,000 K-12 schools in the U.S. There seems to be a consensus building that all school’s should have an armed law enforcer on site. Let’s add some perspective to Noonan’s castigation…. We can’t let it settle in that the police can’t be relied on to be physically braver than other people.Īn implicit agreement in going into the profession is that you’re physically brave. If you can’t cut it, then don’t join and get the badge, the gun and the pension. I ended that post with WSJ, columnist Peggy Noonan’s opinion regarding the first police officers on site at Ulvade - namely, the SROs: A probability greater than zero that charging wouldn’t simply be a futile suicide mission.ĭraw your own conclusion as to whether those criteria are reasonable and compelling.Enough physical might and equipment to.Some probability greater than zero that the periled life would be saved.I admitted that I probably wouldn’t have … and laid out 4 criteria that might have motivated me to act: In a prior post we asked the question: “So, would YOU have charged the Uvalde school shooter?”
What’s reasonable to expect from School Resource Officers?