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twitter email The Shawnee Mission Schools director of safety and security explains the 2015 purchase of semi automatic rifles for school police. [email protected]
The Shawnee Mission Schools director of safety and security explains the 2015 purchase of semi automatic rifles for school police. [email protected]
cinders_edm on June 12nd, 2017 at 15:57 UTC »
I don't get why people are freaking out about this. I live in Shawnee mission and the resource officers have shotguns in their cars. It makes sense why they are getting rifles because a shotgun or a pistol isn't going to do much good in a 300 foot long hallway.
PWL73316 on June 12nd, 2017 at 15:03 UTC »
There seems to be an immense amount of confusion here about why the school district is buying these things. I grew up in "Shawnee Mission" so I will explain.
The "Shawnee Mission" area covers over a dozen suburbs in northeast Johnson County, Kansas, from Shawnee, KS in the west to Mission, KS in the east. All of these suburbs have their own police forces, the Shawnee Police, Mission Police, etc.
Since the school district covers all of these different areas, the district itself has it's own Police Department for their school resource officers. It employs and equips these officers, who are real LEOs with all that that implies.
They bought these long guns, just like they would buy the handcuffs, uniforms, handguns, radios, all the equipment, because they are equipping a whole police force, albeit a small, special purpose one.
Right or wrong, police having long guns in cars is not unusual. As the article notes, the neighboring large suburb of Olathe has long guns locked in their cars, including the cars of school resource officers, but this is done through the Olathe Police Department because the district is organized differently.
Shawnee Mission has a unique organization where the school district itself is buying this equipment, otherwise this purchase would never have been noticed or commented on.
KrisBook on June 12nd, 2017 at 14:59 UTC »
Began reading the article as if it were a joke, however it's actually not that bad.
The guns will sit in the officers' trunks - this is really common with regular cops. Hopefully won't ever need to be used but I'm sure the parents will be glad about the purchase if the guns ever see action.