In the meantime in beautiful and sunny Florida, butthurts are to be had.
ST. PETERSBURG – Mayor Rick Kriseman announced Tuesday morning the city has reversed course on its plan and will no longer take police officers off the streets to serve in elementary schools.
A new state law requires armed guards in every public school. Kriseman and Police Chief Tony Holloway had previously said 25 officers would be pulled from communities and the gang unit to meet the need.
Tuesday’s announcement marked a shift in policy, aligning with previous decisions from Pinellas County and Largo to place that responsibility on the school district.
Instead, the school district will hire designated security guards for some positions.
St. Petersburg will not provide police officers in elementary schools
So now the schools are pissed that they need to come up with armed security by law and are scrambling to come up with solutions that won’t affect their budgets much.
Fuck ’em. They made the beds, they get to sleep on them. It is not like School Boards actually give a shit about the safety of the kids.
“Poll: Michigan teachers don’t want to be armed in school”
Was that response of “more than 1,000 members” unanimous?
I doubt it, and if it was not, then there are some teachers who do want to be armed in school, and the rest cannot morally vote away their rights.
It’s really very simple: If you don’t want to be armed, don’t be armed. But you don’t get to make that decision for someone else. Even if only one teacher wants to be armed, the other “more than 1,000 members” don’t get to decide for that one.
(Without clicking through to check, I somehow believe that it was not unanimous, or even 90%. Probably more like 80-20 or 70-30. Not that it matters; see above.)
$342,000 for 3 cops for ONE YEAR? WFT are they making?
Hey! Are they hiring?
It isn’t just salary. There are benefits, insurance, the employer’s matching half of SS, equipment, training, etc. Almost any business person will tell you that salary is usually about half of the cost of hiring an employee.
True, but that still means $170k salary.
342,000 divided by 3 is not 170K, it is 114K, meaning the cops are making about 57K, which is not out of line.
I am aware of that. Let’s say $60k salary, another $10k benefits, ss and crap, that leaves about $50k they are devoting to covering overhead? The trainer will be doing 4 people for like a month, so that would only be a few thousand bucks for the lot. The cars are already purchased so it would just be depreciation and expendables like gas. The cost of the cars is already baked into their budgets. Technically the same for office expenses, except for consumable supplies, already figured in, no additional costs needed. They still exaggerated by a bit for dramatic effect.
You forgot the required graft overhead in any public budget.
Aren’t there some retired police anywhere around them that they could hire? I know a few retired LEO’s that would gladly hang out at a school and then have summer off, and for significantly less than they were making before. It’s an easy gig, finding the people to do it wouldn’t be an issue. Training is already taken care of. Buy them a uniform and a pair of handcuffs, they can use their personal firearm if they wish. This is about putting a competent person in a school with a firearm to defend children in the event of a shooter, it isn’t astrophysics.
“So now the schools are pissed that they need to come up with armed security by law and are scrambling to come up with solutions that won’t affect their budgets much.
Fuck ’em. They made the beds, they get to sleep on them. It is not like School Boards actually give a shit about the safety of the kids.”
Pretty much, as evidenced by the hide-the-evidence acrobatics being done by Broward & Dade counties.