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Today's Poll!Firm: Schools need private security
Official: ‘Things not as simple as that’
In this News Tribune file photo, students are seen exiting Nichols Career Center and filing back into JCHS. A private security firm has offered to provide security at Jefferson City schools. Photo by News Tribune.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
The owner of a Jefferson City-based security firm has suggested school safety could improved if local leaders would be willing to hire private — and potentially armed — security officers.
Jim Clark, founder and CEO of J & J Security and Investigations LLC, said: “Private security firms are more cost effective than police, with just about the same training.”
Clark said he and his staff approached the local school district with their ideas shortly after the recent massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
“They made a generous offer to have an additional presence, free of charge, in the schools on Thursday and Friday,” the last two days of school until the winter break, said David Luther, assistant to the superintendent for the Jefferson City Schools. But he added: “Things are not as simple as that.”
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online_editor 4 months, 3 weeks ago
To facilitate discussion about local schools somewhat separately from related national issues, let's experiment with this arbitrary division. Let's primarily talk about security issues related specifically to Jefferson City and other area schools on this page, and continue a more general discussion about gun regulations and federal issues over on a national news page like this other one. It's probably not practical to narrow the focus to the complete exclusion of the other, but let's try elevating the airing of any local concerns or suggestions here.
yamahamian 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Rick - not to divert from the topic at hand - but can you please explain why you halted the public comments on the other forum regarding guns??? Seemed a bit hasty, and slightly censorship-like in nature to me....
online_editor 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Or not. LOL. Was just a thought. Probably too impractical from the get go. :-)
JCLifer 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Amen.
connor 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Gasp.... And racially profile? No it is safer to frisk old women, young kids and those who don't bear the racially "protected" government stamp then actually look for the possible perpetrators.
However since most mass shootings in schools (at least the ones reported in the typical Liberal media twist fashion) are committed by White boys racial profiling will be found as legal and justifiable in these cases. Asian boys will be singled out as well.
gofish 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Odds of a child between the ages of 5 and 17 being killed in a school shooting is 1 in 3 million. Odds of a child being in a fatal automobile accident: 1 in 23,000. So tired of the hype about incredibly rare but highly sensationalized and the reactionary decisions that follow.
connor 4 months, 3 weeks ago
And note that the parents of those murdered children now have a law suite going. The Liberal/Feminist media isn't going to be able to keep the meddling of the school's principal and psychologist into Adam Lanza's personal life quiet when it goes to court.
That school was NOT a random target.
wow 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Say what ya will, but I think this Security Firm is looking for a way to make one thing...and it "AINT'T MAKING THE LOCAL SCHOOL'S SAFER", the owner of this company see's a way to make money and that's the bottom line. If the owner was sincere about the safety of school children...why didn't he vounteer his services sooner? Why did'nt he volunteer to help the Amish folks in Pa.or the folks that own movie theatres or shopping malls, or to help the people who own the thousand other places where sensless gun violence has happened? There's a few thousand crazy Muslims throughout the middle east denying females the right to an education and other basic human rights. Go take your guns to help them. I don't recall J&J Security Company volunteerring to do anything until now. Now that the crazies have chummed the water's for more gun's, now these Sharks are circling to make nothing but profit......MONEY!!!!!! You folks are calling for less government, but ya wanna subject our school children to attend an enviornment where the faculty is armed and the halls are patrolled by armed platoons of security forces. Ya don't want the Cops to stop a person for violating a seat belt law and then learn the person they stopped is actaully a nut case that just shot somebody six states over ' or "is wanted for selling dope to school children" or "is wanted for illegally trafficking children" or "is simply wanted for murder", ohh noo Missouri cannot be a primary seatbealt state...that would infrin ge on someone's rights. Soooo ya won't let the Cops do their job and the the result of that is ya wanna put hundreds of gun's in "SCHOOLS". Somehow that don't make a whole lot of sense to me. I'm not saying the Cops could have stopped the Conn. killings....or the any of the other's, but I'd feel much safer if we provided them the equipment and people to do what they get paid to do. We cannot ask for the best and provide the least...and we certainly cannot afford to let the "J&J Security Forces" folks pop up like used car dealerships along Mo. Blvd. and given the job of providing armed security in JC Schools. Not approving the Casino thing...dumb, pushing for the Conf Center...also dumb, the tri-levl design...reeally dumb... the Trash Can deal...also dumb...there are alot of dumb things that have happened in this city. But nothing would be DUMBER than this leadership approving J&J Security Services or anything like this for Missouri/America's Schools.
yamahamian 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I dont see you doing anything but running off at the mouth about 15 different prior newstories/threads you couldn't get the last word in on.
Yeah here's a company 'volunteering' with the possibility of getting a contract for services and (gasp, the horror!) money. Wow thats a novel idea - never heard of that kind of approach to business before....
PatsyDecline 4 months, 3 weeks ago
1000's of brown children killed by violence every day in USA inner cities and by USA weaponry overseas.
3000+ infants murdered daily by abortion in the USA.
20 rich white kids in Westchester County are murdered by a psychopath who had a guardian who was too stupid to lock up her legal guns.....and apparently this is a sign the whole world is coming to an end.
All the MSM sycophants on TV bleating on and on.....as their own children attend private schools with armed guards.
Business as usual in DC.
Good thing our dear leader is such a uniter and not a divider!!
wow 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Patsy your frustraion is noted, but make no mistake...this mess was going on long before "O" was choosen to lead America. The killing's were happening long before that...and some of it was and still is being done by these nutcase who feel it's their right to shoot first and determine what the fact's are later. Carried by 6 is not as popular as judged by 12, especially when those 12 are just a bunch of crazed cook's with hate on their mind. So no it ain't the President's doing...can and should he help try fixing this stuf?f...YES...but it's not his fault. Try lookin at the BS gun laws, who can own them and how easy it is to buy them. Try lookin at the medical laws about how to handle people with mental conditions...try lookin at the loop holes in our criminal justice system that allows known criminals to walk the streets freely...just because incarceration is to tough for them or some hard working good cop forgot to dot an I or cross a T. It's the system that's broke and allows this mess to happen...so yes, your frustration is understood, but misplaced, casue it ain't the current Presdent who got us here. Sounds like you got a bigger issue...casue 1st..who cares what color a vicitm is..especially a child vicitm? 2nd those kids in Westchester were not all rich, nor do I think they were all white...if they were so what? What they were for sure is innocent vicitms! 3rd...last I knew Abortion is not murder, it's a legal way for a person or person's to handle a situation that is private, between them, the doctor and God. It might be good for you to remember that!
Paroquet 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Here's the first thing that will happen with uniformed security in schools; a perps effort at planning will go into how to neutralize security personnel. Knowing this, the security firms have to ensure reasonable safety, the latest in body armor, communications, and firearms ensuring security detail will be visible. Criminals react by procuring more advanced or higher powered weapons, or using other means. Bombs and poison come immediately to mind.
Instead of nutjobs, you'll wind up with calculating, well-planned crimes designed specifically to defeat security first. Not ideal.
Next; hardening entryways and controlling student movements. This would probably end with mandatory implantation of identification devices for all students and staff.
It'd be easier to just require teachers to pass CCW training, or hunter's ed. if they qualify as a conscientious objector, and have a few armed at random rotation with tasers or LTL ammunition. Controlling access and student movements between periods is as simple as putting in a sound door with a good lock, and periodic live action security drills among faculty and staff that specifically address dealing with an armed invader. Paintball practice or laser tag comes to mind. Panic buttons wouldn't be a bad idea either.
SweetPea 4 months, 3 weeks ago
To wow...As I read the article I noticed that J&J Security offered to "volunteer" their services. They are not looking at this horrible situation as a money maker. You should know what you are talking about before you say anything. I have known the owners of J&J security for over 20 years and I can tell you personally that their hearts are in the right place on this. They also have children in the school system. Just because they own a business (as other business owners) does NOT mean they are "In it for the money". Please use common sense before you comment. These are good people with HUGE hearts...God bless you J&J.
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