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matt819

(10,749 posts)

3. Nope

Reply to LexVegas (Original post)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 11:12 AM

Feb 2018

There are 100,000 public schools in the United States. Some of the schools have a few hundred students, some of them have several thousand. Putting undercover cops In randomly would do nothing. Even when uniformed police are at schools with our school shootings, they have been ineffective.

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We could do like 21 Jump Street and put really young looking cops randomly in schools. [View all] LexVegas Feb 2018 OP

Better yet -- vampires! -nt Freelancer Feb 2018 #1

And zombies! fleur-de-lisa Feb 2018 #2

Whoa.... you just blew my mind! -nt Freelancer Feb 2018 #4

And weaponized flesh-eating bacteria . . . fleur-de-lisa Feb 2018 #7

Fight bacteria with bacteria, grandpappy always said... (spit) -nt Freelancer Feb 2018 #12

A moat with alligators! They're all over the place in Fl. poboy2 Feb 2018 #5

Instead of "Snakes on a Plane"... Snakes in a school -nt Freelancer Feb 2018 #9

Excellent suggestion! poboy2 Feb 2018 #14

Old people... we are expendable! tavernier Feb 2018 #16

Yes! Oldies with weaponized guilt Freelancer Feb 2018 #18

Nope matt819 Feb 2018 #3

Because there is a supply of tens of thousands of them? jberryhill Feb 2018 #6

When I was in HS we had a undercover cop in school dewsgirl Feb 2018 #8

That actually is a really good idea obamanut2012 Feb 2018 #10

It obviously has merit. nt LexVegas Feb 2018 #11

I literally just emailed my FL state rep! obamanut2012 Feb 2018 #13

US cops are all too often violent bully boys, and the young ones can be really aggressive. tblue37 Feb 2018 #15

That's why young women coips are better obamanut2012 Feb 2018 #19

A thousand times NO! hunter Feb 2018 #17