Securing Our Schools Without Creating Prisons

Chris BarrierDirector of Law Enforcement

Montgomery County School District Police Department

This vs That

Objectives

Identify the impact of safety measures in place to lessen the occurrence of school violence- deterrance

What can you as policy/decision makers do to help secure your schools

Where are we today… Since 1999 (post-columbine) there have

been 400 school violence related deaths in the united states (122 by shootings)

Top 10 most deadly since Columbine 2007 Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Va. — 33 deaths 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Conn. — 27 deaths 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Fla. — 17 deaths 2015 Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Ore. — 10 deaths 2005 Red Lake Senior High School, Red Lake, Minn. — 7 deaths 2012 Oikos University, Oakland, Calif. — 7 deaths 2006 West Nickel Mines School, Bart Township, Penn. — 6 deaths 2008 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Ill. — 6 deaths 2014 Marysville Pilchuck High School, Marysville, Wa. — 5 deaths 2002 University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. — 4 deaths

Where it all Started –Bath School Disaster

May 18, 1927 Bath Township

Michigan Andrew Kehoe

(farmer) Killed 45 and injured

58 Used 500 lbs of

dynamite explosives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tbsd-001.jpg

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kahoe_House.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kahoe_House_remains-east.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kahoe_sign.jpg

San Diego School Shooting

January 29, 1979 Brenda Spencer 16yr old female Killed a principal and

custodian Injured a police officer Used .22 cal rifle she

received for Christmas just a month prior

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“I Hate Mondays.”

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East Carter High School January 18, 1993 Carter County Kentucky Gary Scott Pennington Shot and killed his English teacher and

custodian before surrendering to authorities

Reason: stated that he read in a book that juveniles could not be charged with adult crimes

Result: Gary Scott Pennington is still in prison today for the murders he committed on that day.

Handouts

Significance? As the amount of Shooting incidents at schools

increased, so did the amount of resources that became dedicated to understanding and preventing such incidents.

One common factor columbine, East Carter, and several other school shootings had in common was the warning signs. In the two mentioned here, both submitted work to the teachers indicating their desire to kill and nothing was done.

Check their notebooks, see what they are writing in them…every school age shooter had in their possession either drawings or letters in their books or notebooks that indicated their intentions to commit violent offenses

5:00 Get-up 6:00 meet at KS 7:00 go to Reb’s

[Harris' nickname, short for 'Rebel']house

7:15 he leaves to fill propane I leave to fill gas

8:30 Meet back at his house 9:00 made d. bag set up car

9:30 practice gearups Chill

10:30 set up 4 things 11: go to school

11:10 set up duffel bags 11:12 wait near cars, gear up

11:16 HAHAHA

Luke WoodhamPearl, Mississippi School Shooter

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Kip KinkelSpringfield , Oregon School

Shooter

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Columbine

April 20, 1999 Jefferson Co,

Colorado Eric Harris and Dylan

Klebold Killed 12 students and

a teacher, injured 21 others

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These pictures were taken from videos the two made practicing for the columbine massacre

Note that in each photo the two are laughing and casual acting

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Where to go from here

knowing the difference between liability and necessity

Post-Columbine

Introduction of the Lockdown Drill Introduction of the “Rapid Deployment-

Active Shooter” Concept Millions spent on intervention

programs/protocols

Enter the Age of the Lockdown

Prior to Columbine, there were no official, nationally adopted school safety measures to combat the threat of school shooters. There were, however, fire, gas, and severe weather drills already in place in most school districts nationwide.

Adaptation: RUN-HIDE-FIGHT RHF is the newest model of training for teachers,staff,

and students in response to school violence.

Areas of Focus

Identify your deficiencies (School Safety Commission)

Act on your findings (doing nothing, putting your head in the sand is never the best practice. And status quo is never a reason not to act)

Just because it isn’t happening now doesn’t mean it wont again or that it wont happen to you.

School Safety Commission Form a committee: use stakeholders from

all walks (students, staff, police, fire, community members, whoever

Survey students – survey staff – survey community

We focused on three key areas: Policy/Procedures Infrastructure Personnel (SRO’s, Added security, etc)

Policy/Procedures: Our Findings

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Door and Building Access

Officers in The Schools

Policies & Administration

Student Concerns/ Title 1

Series 1

Open Response Data

289

147

255

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Series 1

Door and Building Access289

Officers in The Schools147

Policies & Administration255

Student Concerns/ Title 153

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Recommendations based on survey findings

The following are recommendations of the Commission for changes/additions to policies and procedures, Training for all personnel ( Certified and Classified) prior to the start of each school year in procedures for these

type of events. The implementation of a Crisis Intervention Team and policy for use thereof. Increased and monitored presence of personnel in hallways/bathrooms and bus ramps. Four lockdown drills at each facility per year. Non-educational facilities will have procedures drafted and implemented for events within their facilities. Procedures for bus incidents and training for drivers in the event they are faced with such. A training block for substitute teachers which will be attended prior to teaching in the facility. A procedure for Administrators and Receptionists with a visible checklist for all emergency events. Revisions to the Visitor policy for increased awareness of who is in the buildings at all times which would require

Administration Staff approval. Visible ID tags for all staff and visitors that uniform in type for each category. A confidential reporting procedure for students to utilize. Yearly review and critique of related policies. Reinforcement to all staff on the importance of these drills and the need to demonstrate this importance so that

students take them seriously. Investigation of an Amnesty Program that allows students counseling rather than expulsion if they self-report in

these events. Training for all employees hired during the school year on school safety procedures prior to assuming duties. In the event of any renovations to or the construction of new facilities, safety and security will be one of the

parameters included in design and reviewed prior to construction by school personnel trained in such.

Infrastructure: Our Findings

Bollards:

Keyless Entry Alarms on non priority entrances Cameras Window tinting Added door buzzer systems Hardened entry locations

Infrastructure: Our Findings

Personnel: Our Findings Can you add SRO’s (post newtown we added 3 additional SRO’s)

Kentucky currently has 271 SROs in 118 schools districts About 2/3 of KY counties are covered (we are working hard to improve this

statistic) 271 SRO’s are tasked to cover 1220 public schools / 656,588 students

Can you add Security Monitors (we have recently added a civilian parking lot monitor with a guard shack to see guests arrive)

What is the fiscal impact What do these things look like for your district, community

What We Know

The conversations must be had, not only in tough times

The work must never cease in terms of improving school safety (put together a 5-10 year plan

Do something, don’t do nothing

Securing Our Schools Without Creating Prisons�This vs That208Slide Number 4ObjectivesWhere are we today…Where it all Started – �Bath School DisasterSlide Number 8Slide Number 9San Diego School Shooting“I Hate Mondays.”East Carter High SchoolSignificance?Slide Number 14Slide Number 15Slide Number 16Slide Number 17Slide Number 18ColumbineSlide Number 20Slide Number 21Slide Number 22Where to go from here���knowing the difference between liability and necessityPost-ColumbineEnter the Age of the LockdownSlide Number 26Areas of FocusSchool Safety CommissionPolicy/Procedures: Our FindingsRecommendations based on survey findingsInfrastructure: Our FindingsInfrastructure: Our FindingsPersonnel: Our FindingsWhat We Know