They were probably just waiting for some CS rounds to become available - FREE. You don't pass up the opportunity to acquire a capability just because you have to do it piecemeal instead of all at one time: you don't look a gift horse in the mouth. There are also sub-caliber adapters available for grenade launchers that allow firing 12 gauge shotgun shells (for those who like to salt their meat) to compliment what the rifle fires without having to carry a second long arm. Not my cup of tea; but, if it's free ...

Yeah, I think there is a lot of agencies, police, school, local governments,that have said oooh pretty, when free stuff is offered. Instead they should be saying what do we need, how would we use that, how would we train our people to use that, how does that fit in our planned responses, etc?

That's a fair amount of mission creep.

"Teach my child to read."

"Sure, I'll need a grenade launcher to do that."

Tbh, I find the idea of a police force for schools a little alien. Aside from the Cambridge University constabulary we don't really have an equivalent here - the schools just come under the policing of the area they're in. Then agan, as already mentioned, we're a fairly small place and pretty close together, so there's probably a lot less need for specialisation in that regard.

You don't generally see campus police outside of universities here either. This is a case of allowing a school system to get to large to operate normally. We sometimes have local police assigned to a campus engaged in DARE or some other absurdity, while waiting for something terrible to happen.

We had campus cops in all the high schools here. It was a convenience more than anything, because the cops would have had to drive out there several times a week anyway for the regular drugs/fighting/weapons calls. For the most part they just wandered around until they were needed.

Maybe they have a high school ROTC program. :lol2:

That makes sense.

Back then, students from Faber College did wonders with a Lincoln. Imagine what they could have done with an MRAP. Upgraded technology means nobody need crush beer cans on their forehead.

I just happened to read this today.

I'm glad I live in Arlington. If this had happened in Ferguson, the kid would have been shot. Instead, nobody was hurt. This is how cops should behave. Look for a way to not kill a suspect instead of looking for justification to kill them instead.

The problem is that's the type of asshole who should be shot.

The point is that the cops were there and actually saw the situation and decided that he wasn't putting anyone in deadly harm. So they tazered him and tackled him instead of shooting him.

I think if this was in Ferguson, they would see the knife and just think "hey, free pass to kill a bad guy" and pull the trigger.

Absolutely. Only shoot as a last resort, and generally aim to disarm or disable not kill.

The trouble with places like Ferguson though, is that the police there seem to view the citizens as the Enemy.

I get your point, my point is that isn't always for the best.

No. That's the type of asshole who should go in front of a judge.


He's 19 years old. He may be a wholly different person by the time he hits 30. Sometimes people really do change, really do reform. I am a conpletely different person to the girl i was at 19. Better that he be tried and possibly imprisoned with the possibilit of change than gunned down on the street for waving a knife - and clearly waving it rather ineffectually.

It is not, nor is it ever, the job of police to be judge, jury and executioner.