John Oliver Debunks Effectiveness of Police Officers in Schools: ‘Don’t Need Any More Ways to Make School Scarier’ (Video)
06.06.2022 - 17:57
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number of doors on a school building to, as one former FBI employee suggested, using “blankets that you can put up on the wall that are colorful and beautiful, but they’re ballistic blankets.”“What are you talking about?!” Oliver mocked in response. “‘Use a blanket’ is not a strategy for stopping deaths during a school shooting.
It’s barely a strategy for ‘a bird got in the house.'”But, turning to the idea of having armed officers in schools, Oliver was equally skeptical. According to the late night host, since the Columbine Massacre in 1999, more than $750 million has been given to schools by the federal government, and more than 6500 SROs have been hired in schools nationwide.
According to Oliver, “the most recent data available shows 58% of American schools report having a sworn law enforcement officer on campus at least once a week.”That said, Oliver pointed out that both the schools in Uvalde and Parkland, Florida had armed officers on campus. He also pulled up a study which found that “when you have armed officers on the scene, you actually see more casualties, often because that perpetrator is suicidal.
They’re familiar with that school. They know that officer is there and so they come in heavily armed.” So, Oliver questioned why arming school resource officers is continually suggested.“If school cops can make shootings worse, why then are we still pitching them as a solution? If OFF! discovered that their mosquito repellent attracted mosquitoes, they’d stopped selling it, or at the very least rebrand it as a cologne for lonely mosquito bachelors,” Oliver joked.
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