Comments on: School Safety: A Public Safety Imperative http://www.publicsafetysignals.com/2008/01/29/school-safety-a-public-safety-imperative/ A discussion of Public Safety issues and why they matter Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:06:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Charles http://www.publicsafetysignals.com/2008/01/29/school-safety-a-public-safety-imperative/comment-page-1/#comment-419 Charles Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:41:42 +0000 http://www.publicsafetysignals.com/2008/01/29/school-safety-a-public-safety-imperative/#comment-419 John, thanks for your comments. I believe that violence in all of its forms and manifestations and in all of its locales is a public safety imperative. In my view, schools should be our bastions of learning and should be safe zones; children shouldn’t fear, or be exposed to, potential violence as they attend their education. As you said, there already exists undue violence in our communities. I think that it is unfortunate that our society tolerates any degree or incident of violence – irrespective of its location. Research suggests that violence can be a learned behavior. Today is yet another act of violence with the school shooting at N. Illinois University. Sadly, I fear that we will continue to have plenty of information to print about school violence, domestic violence, gang violence, youth violence, and murders until our country collectively takes a decisive and united stand and says -“ENOUGH”! My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those lost and to those injured today in Illinois. Charles John, thanks for your comments. I believe that violence in all of its forms and manifestations and in all of its locales is a public safety imperative. In my view, schools should be our bastions of learning and should be safe zones; children shouldn’t fear, or be exposed to, potential violence as they attend their education. As you said, there already exists undue violence in our communities. I think that it is unfortunate that our society tolerates any degree or incident of violence – irrespective of its location. Research suggests that violence can be a learned behavior.

Today is yet another act of violence with the school shooting at N. Illinois University. Sadly, I fear that we will continue to have plenty of information to print about school violence, domestic violence, gang violence, youth violence, and murders until our country collectively takes a decisive and united stand and says -“ENOUGH”!

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those lost and to those injured today in Illinois.
Charles

]]> By: John Means http://www.publicsafetysignals.com/2008/01/29/school-safety-a-public-safety-imperative/comment-page-1/#comment-412 John Means Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:51:11 +0000 http://www.publicsafetysignals.com/2008/01/29/school-safety-a-public-safety-imperative/#comment-412 In 2006 25% of Murder victims were under the age of 22 (school and college age., a total of over 3700. Homicide is at epidemic proportion for people in this age group. The fact that only 35 of these homicides occurred in school is a testiment to the measures in place to protect our shools. I honestly don't know why so much print is used on the very rare school shootings, as tragic as they are, when more of our youth are killed on the streets of our cities every weekend, and the national news hardly notices. In 2006 25% of Murder victims were under the age of 22 (school and college age., a total of over 3700. Homicide is at epidemic proportion for people in this age group. The fact that only 35 of these homicides occurred in school is a testiment to the measures in place to protect our shools.

I honestly don’t know why so much print is used on the very rare school shootings, as tragic as they are, when more of our youth are killed on the streets of our cities every weekend, and the national news hardly notices.

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