Plan to put Tasers in Uniontown schools gets mixed reviews

Chris Foreman
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Saturday, Aug 9, 2008

The president of a school safety consulting firm said districts like Uniontown Area, which is considering arming its police officers with Tasers, have to take a conservative approach to their deployment and develop a comprehensive policy.

But an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union said it’s hard for him even to see a need for Tasers in a school setting.

Uniontown school officials intend to draft a Taser policy for their school police officers that might be discussed as soon as the school board’s Aug. 18 meeting and could be considered for adoption next month.

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The school’s director of security says giving the district’s three officers the option of using a Taser is more about providing the safest possible conditions for children, staff and visitors than as a weapon “directed at the students.”

Concerned parents and residents questioned the necessity of the devices at a public meeting Wednesday night, but a Cleveland consultant said in an interview Thursday that a Taser can be a “useful extra tool” for authorities as an alternative to a firearm in gaining control in a tense situation.
Ken Trump, a former school security director who heads National School Safety and Security Services, said a device like a Taser — which delivers a powerful electric shock to incapacitate a person — potentially can be helpful if an adult non-student intruder threatens harm to himself or others.

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5 Responses to “Plan to put Tasers in Uniontown schools gets mixed reviews”

1. neon Says:
   August 9th, 2008 at 7:47 am

   http://video.google.com/videop.....3654065825

   “If you’re an innocent bystander to what has transpired here today, you can thank those people that are bringing dope into this school. Every time we think there’s dope in this school, we’re going to be coming up here to deal with it, and this is one of the ways we can deal with it,” the unidentified officer says.

   Okay, okay so they didn’t find any pot at all….okay, okay so they didn’t have a warrant. Okay, okay…. so they pointed guns at the kids…and threatened, and terrorized the kids.
   WHO WERE ALL INNOCENT BYSTANDERS.

   “If you have nothing to hide.. there is nothing to worry about…”
   says the drooling flag suckers who post here.

   “The school’s director of security says giving the district’s three officers the option of using a Taser is more about providing the safest possible conditions for children, staff and visitors than as a weapon “directed at the students.”

   Yeah…sure.

2. BeTrueSeekTruth Says:
   August 9th, 2008 at 10:44 am

   All those who advocate the use of Tasers should be required to submit to having the Tasers deployed on them to experience the effects first hand. Actually, this issue is going to become the tipping point that wakes people up to the New World Order police state. This information has been injected into the mass consciousness but the steady barrage of CCM propaganda has discredited it in the minds of those who are blinded. However a visceral issue such as this will allow this information to quickly resurface. It will become a catylyst will certainly wake many people up. These NWO nazis are at the end of the day..foolish men puffed up with pride.

3. JF Says:
   August 9th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

   baloney. Tazers in schools now? What the heck is next? Who comes up with this nonsense? Geez, I remember days very well when I was in school there were no police on campus, much less ones with lethal weapons.

4. drparadox Says:
   August 9th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

   Why doesn’t the gov’t just throw all children in prison. look at all the tax payer money they will save for more wars. prison and public schools are the same.

   WTF is wrong govt school boards! Someone needs to file a child protective services complaint against the schools director.

   I guess in todays age, school bullies grow-up to work for the school system. Home schooling is looking better every day.

5. blindboy Says:
   August 11th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

   Anyone who uses a taser on another human being needs to have the word ‘SADIST’ tattooed on their f^cking forehead.