Re: School lock downs

[Steam dragon]

I looked for a thread on this,If I missed one, mods please move or merge...

JPFO sent out an alert on Jan 29th.

I was reminded of it because of another thread here regarding a school going on lockdown.

Well, y'all might want to read the 3 part article hosted at JPFOs' site. The intended audience of the article are LEOs.

From the article:

They've given us a catastrophic model to train against, which we've largely ignored and they've learned more deadly tactics from.

"We don't know for sure what they will do. But by definition, a successful attack is one we are not ready for," declared one of the instructors, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. Our schools fit that description to a "T"-as in Terrorism and Threat.

Grossman, the popular law enforcement motivational speaker, and Todd Rassa, a trainer with the SigArms Academy and an advisory board member for The Police Marksman magazine, shared a full day's agenda on the danger to U.S. schools at a recent three-day conference on terrorist issues, sponsored by the International Assn. of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI) in Atlantic City .

They reminded the audience that patrol officers, including perhaps some with their own children involved, will inevitably be the first responders when terrorists hit. And they documented chilling descriptions of the life-or-death challenges that likely will be faced.

In Part 1 of this three-part report on highlights of their presentations we focus on what's known about the threat to our schools to date, why terrorists have selected them as targets, and what tactics you're likely to be up against in responding to a sudden strike.

In Parts 2 and 3, we'll explore Grossman's and Rassa's recommendations for practical measures you and your agency can take now to get ready, including some defensive actions that don't require any budget allocations.

Why schools? Two reasons:

1. Our values. "The most sacred thing to us is our children, our babies," Rassa said. Killing hundreds of them at a time would significantly "boost Islamic morale and lower that of the enemy" (us). In Grossman's words, terrorists see this effort as "an attempt to defile our nation" by leaving it "stunned to its soul."

2. Our lack of preparation. Police agencies "aren't used to this," Rassa said. "We deal with acts of a criminal nature. This is an act of war," but because of our laws "we can't depend on the military to help us," at least at the outset.

Read the whole thing.

Then print it out, and bring it to the attention of your local PD.
Don't be confrontational about it, just a "Hey, Chief, here's a heads up for you!"

I thank the good Lord my kids have graduated...

I won't get THAT phone call...

 

[mbt2001]

Quoting Darth Maul:

Fear. Fear attracts the fearful, the strong, the weak, the innocent, the corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally.

This whole article leaves me very uneasy. The focus (and mention) of the religion of the "terrorists" is tantamount to specifically blaming them for any future event. We have WAY to many enemies to focus on just one set. They highlight how "unsafe" we are.

I tell you what, I don't want to see anything happen to our kids... But I deplore the us of terror tactics like this, the same tactics that the American people have been pounded with since 9/11. Terrorists, Anthrax, shoe bombs, liquid as carry ons, Bird Flu, et cetera.

People have wanted to destroy this country for 200+ years from the inside and from the outside. I think that times may get tough, but let us not succumb to fear...

 

[Art Eatman]

mbt2001, the Israelis have been living with this for almost sixty years, now. Have they succumbed?

Art

 

[The Cavalry]

The Israelis stepped up and armed/trained teachers, whereas we here in the US have rendered the people inside our schools defenseless.

We succumbed before the attack began.

 

[Jeff White]

There is already a thread on this. The police are not unaware of the threat.

Jeff