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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a friend who is LEO who operates metal detectors.  He said they are actually challenging to operate correctly and require trained workers.  The County is short on police, sheriffs to do courthouse security, and McPS security….where are they going to get the trained officers to run all these metal detectors?  Some studies showed TSA misses the majority of weapons and I guarantee that the equipment and staffing McPS could get would be seriously inferior to TSA.

I support bringing back SROs and increasing security so that there is a security officer in each HS hallway as well as most doorways.  I just don’t think metal detectors work well, and don’t want my kids to have to get up an hour earlier so they can stand in long lines while 3000 kids go through a metal detector. (And anyone that wants to shoot a kid could just do it while they are walking to a portable or eating lunch outside.)[/quote]

You're worried there's not enough staff to man the metal or weapons detectors, but then in the same breath expect a security in each HS hallway. Where do you expect that number of staff to manifest to man hallways if you don't believe there's enough to man the detectors?[/quote]

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