that came out of the board's limited response to those who came to advocate for arming the APS Police, came from Robert Lucero.
He suggested that we take a hard look at spending $2.8M on a private police force that can field only ten officers in case of an emergency.
He suggested that maybe the APD or BCSO could be contracted to protect students and staff at school.
Why aren't they already? Why do students and staff forfeit the protection of the APD and BCSO by crossing the property line of a school? APS is the only district in the state with their own police force. The district's size; does not in any real way, justify a private police force. The leadership of the APS created and maintain the publicly funded private police force for entirely different reasons.
Let's disband APS' Administrative Praetorian Guard; and spend the $2.8M on something more closely related to real student success.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
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AH! Now I see your point, why does APS ahve to PAY EXTRA, do Catholic schools have to? How about private schools, do they have to pay APD to help them?
I get it!
I think the only think that APS an do is transfer funds to APD or BCSD for money they would have spent on salary and benefits for the special deputies they employ. They still need the campus service aides or security aides or whatever they are called now.
The special deputies that now work for the school district could jump into a job with APD or the BCSD. Some of them already worked in one of the two places, and retirement caps no longer make it better to work for one type of public entity over another.
Here is the catch: BCSD and APD make more per officer per hour. APS would be able to afford LESS cops, but they can't fill the slots they have open now.
Could the Sheriff or the Chief of Police fill those open positions any more efficiently? Probably so, they have a whole machine with advertising dollars to recruit.
So everyone wins, but you get a few less cops to patrol schools, but they are better trained and don't have to leave their guns in the trunk.
"Excuse me, Mr. Cho, may I go get my gun from my trunk?"
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