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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kirby road is a mess. I can't believe a cop can't direct traffic somehow.  This situation is like waiting for an accident to happen.  [/quote]

My kids were at Chesterbrook ten + years ago and they tried and tried and tried to hire a crossing guard after the last one retired and no one applied. They tried for years.  So they moved everyone to the buses.  The police do not have the staff to supply a traffic cop there. We are lucky to get the one at Longfellow. [/quote]
It’s an off-duty cop working OT. The school board could pay for one for Chesterbrook same as Longfellow.[/quote]
This is likely an equity issue.

If the SB pays for a crossing guard at HHI schools only and not for Title One schools…[/quote]
Then make sure you are advocating for all schools that need an off duty officer to direct traffic gets one. Not every school in the county is on a busy road that actually needs a police officer versus a crossing guard.[/quote]

There are not enough police officers left in ffx counth for every school to have an officer directing traffic.

Our Catholic school on a very busy main road has always paid for a police officer to direct morning and afternoon kiss and ride.

This year they were told that no cops were available for the school, in spite being in a location that backs up traffic onto the main 4 lane divided road.

The reason there are not enough cops to run school kiss and rides is because there was a record number of police retirements and police quitting in ffx county over the past year.

And there is a severe drop in academy recruits over the past year.   So there are not enough new cops funneling into the system to replace those leaving service.  The current low staffed departments have officers working extra hours to cover the basic policing needs, so there are not enough police to run car pool lanes except at the most dire schools.

In our neigh orhood, that means only the middle school (same street at the Catholic school memtioned above) and the high school has cops directing traffic.

This is a side consequence of police shortages caused by the stigmatization of police over the past year.[/quote]

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