Because this just screams "Great Idea"

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Cary-Grove-Drill-To-Include-Shooting-Blanks-188856881.html

TL/DR:

Chicago suburb will be hosting multiple PDs as they do a simulated school shooting exercise, firing blanks, while students are still in class.....

Edited by tallen702 - 29 January 2013 at 11:58pm

Why not stage it in a real combat environment like Chicago's west side? You know the city with some of the strictest gun laws in the U.S. with it's 500 plus shooting deaths.

Chicago has enough real gunfire on a daily basis, no need to simulate it.

SSOK wrote: I'd really like to know why Chicago is indeed the crappiest place in the USA.

because the majority of forum members don't live there to spruce it up silly.

I actually don't think this is intrinsically a bad idea, provided students know it is going to take place. Schools that take this seriously do drills, even if they do them during say, a lunch period or any other particularly vulnerable time in the school-day. It's important to assess readiness in less-than-optimum situations. But it there's no informed consent, a student should be protected if they beat an actor armed with a prop-gun to death with a chair. We don't institute faux-hijackings on airlines to test readiness.

I'm not sure how you test those responses, keep doing it until the airline passengers gouge out a paid actors eyes? Without informed consent you could cook up all sort of horrible scenarios for social experiments involving unthinkable violence, I mean, why not in the 1950's convince adolescent students that they were the only ones spared in a nuclear exchange and convince them to repopulate the world?It seems that informed consent is the issue here, knowing what gunfire sounds like could save lives, but if they were just freaking people out with random drills about deadly incidents, it's their hindquarters if someone gets beat. I wouldn't feel at all bad if soke news organizations put a hidden camera crew on a flight and asked them to do a mock hijacking  with fake boxcutters and ended up incapacitated or horribly disfigured for their efforts.

We do our rapid deployment training in a real school. I think it's dumb to do it in a school with kids in it though.

Edited by usafpilot07 - 31 January 2013 at 4:32pm

That sounds dumb, the local cops I know all drill at our school during vacations several times a year with simunitions. That added insurance is worth replacing the smashed doorknobs and patches in the paint IMO. 

wow... flashback...

A mate of mine has taken the UK/Europe mid/east distribution for this mob.