🤗Pittston Area School Board provides rifles for school police officers

[GOYABEAN]

🇺🇸 YATESVILLE — Pittston Area School District has put one shotgun and one AR-15 rifle in each of its four schools, securing the new weapons in safes with biometric locks that can only be opened with the fingerprint of the school police officer assigned to that school.

https://www.timesleader.com/news/158...olice-officers

[DK23]

That's a good step, but I don't think I would have announced that only the school resource officer can open the safe.

[Sgt.K]

... I don't think I would have announced that only the school resource officer can open the safe.

^^^^ This

[General Geoff]

Great, now the one officer can spend 5 minutes sprinting across the complex, another two minutes opening the safe and retrieving/loading the rifle, and another 5 minutes running to where the threat is.


I guess 12 minutes is better than 2 hours.

[Walleye Hunter]

Great, now the one officer can spend 5 minutes sprinting across the complex, another two minutes opening the safe and retrieving/loading the rifle, and another 5 minutes running to where the threat is.


I guess 12 minutes is better than 2 hours.

Most definitely, and even more so if they officer isn't afraid to use it. Maybe just its existence will send the perp in another direction.

[MARINE DIVISION TWO]

A better option would be The Resource Officer having Access AND School Staff That is well trained in the use of those firearms ! This way the R/O would be a # 1 target but diminishes that with Staff also being trained .

[ROCK-IT3]

Great, now the one officer can spend 5 minutes sprinting across the complex, another two minutes opening the safe and retrieving/loading the rifle, and another 5 minutes running to where the threat is.


I guess 12 minutes is better than 2 hours.

Or you confront and kill him first.