There is a serious shortage of School Resource Officers according to a segment of people seeking solutions to school violence. There is no dispute that SRO’s in high schools and large middle schools, although their value in preventing active shooters is minimal at best. Almost every high school where a mass shooting occurred had a […]

The State of Ohio has announced that it is designing two portable “shoot houses” that will be available to school districts that authorize their employees to be armed on school grounds. Law enforcement agencies utilize two methods of training working officers. They are Scenario Based Training (SBT) and Reality Based Training (RBT). SBT involves a […]

The U.S. Department of Justice issued its final report on the school shooting at Robb elementary in Uvalde, Texas. The scathing report correctly identifies multiple failures from the initial response and throughout the duration but ignores the reality of smaller police agency response. In many smaller police agencies, the Police Chief is one of the […]

With the most recent school shooting in Iowa, the cries for a police officer in every school has risen again. The fact is that there are numerous reasons that a uniformed police officer is not an answer to the problem. The first issue is the cost of salary and benefits that the school district has […]

This article needs to open with the reality that there is no way to totally prevent active shooters in schools without turning them into maximum security prisons. That said, there are ways to minimize the damage that an active shooter can accomplish. I. Install electromagnetic locks on all classroom doors which are controlled from the […]

FOX News anchor #TuckerCarlson spent the first twenty minutes of his nationally televised show on Tuesday, July 5 railing on the Governors of Illinois and New York for their moronic statements regarding gun control. Both states are among the most stringent laws in the country regarding firearms, yet they are the site of the last […]

In order for gun laws to have any effect, they must be enforced. That has not happened in the past and there is no reason that things will be different in the future. Assistant U.S. Attorneys are appointed positions and have the total freedom to pursue only those cases that interest them. Bank robberies are […]

The most recent tragic event in Texas has brought the issue of school safety to the forefront again. This is a re-post of a 2018 article. Thoughts on School Safety Posted on February 22, 2018 by coptrainer56@yahoo.com The recent shooting in a school in Florida has raised a firestorm of issues relating to school safety. […]

The recent shooting in a school in Florida has raised a firestorm of issues relating to school safety. Calls for restricting the sale of assault weapons, arming teachers and staff in the schools, mental health reforms, and hiring a professional security staff for all schools. All of these have pros and cons and this article […]

A case which may have national implications will be heard by the Ohio Supreme Court this session. The question(s) that it will raise is whether: (1) School employees are agents of the government and therefore governed by the Fourth Amendment; and (2) whether a school holds the special status similar to that of an Airport […]