the desk. my kids will say that s where they were written on the silk tablets. today the drill is what? simply to go out of the school? how do you prepare little kids without scaring them? for an active shooter you don t want the kids running out of school. they can run into the active shooter. you want to be able to lock down the classroom. if you can lock down the classroom, get the children down on the floor, take their desks lay them over get behind the desks lock the door so the shooter doesn t gain access to that. the first two or three minutes of an active shooter incident is the deadliest. what we want to do is we want to slow him down so that if we slow him down the police can respond and then the police can deal with him. very quickly, you were a detective, homicide detective at nypd. these guns we were hearing about
other young men but with a few disorders that had to be addressed. what kind of disorders? asburgers is out there. he was withdrawn and had difficulty interacting with other students. richard, when you say asbergers is out there, did you know that at the time? how old was he when you first met him? do you remember? 13shgs 14 years old in middle school. did any one mention that he was suffering from that issue? it would have been in the high school when he was coming into high school. you said it was reported that you were a tech club advisor. tell us about that. yeah, the school has clubs. i ran the tech club as the
was a place to be long. did he need that? yes, he definitely needed that desperately. why do you say that? well, it goes back to saying that he was withdrawn most of the time, he was very quiet. in his freshman year he was very small in size and he had a lot of fear coming into the high school and interacting with other students. but did he have a reason to be fearful of the other students? was he picked on? not really, no. no. not really. newtown system itself is a very, very loving caring school. the administrators, the teachers, most of the students usually adopt kids younger than
stop this crazed individual. he is evil. he did the devil s work. what can we do in schools to protect our children? they did have some plan in the school. we could probably tweak that, though. how? apparently the shooter got in through the glass door. what happens is he shot the glass door out and went inside. the class itself wasn t was very easily penetrated. he was able to access the school. so there s a couple different things we can do. what? something simple like put the bars on the doors. people say, harry that that s intimidating. you don t want metal detectors you don t want a cop with a gun. now you are talking bars. you believe this is something we need to do? i think that the lock down is probably the answer.
describe a lock down. you do with your emergency action plan. it is basically locking down the school which they tried to do. they locked all of the doors. but the shooter is in the school. right, exactly. the shooter got into the school. if they had some kind of bars on that door maybe the shooter could not have gotten to the school. so let s accouple that there is this as you call safety or emergency action plan. that means that we have to train the teachers and efshl else. is this expensive? who pays for it in a world where the end of the fiscal cliff, how difficult is it? we know that schools aren t going to put 50,000 dollars into a security upgrade. something like this is easy to do. it is a little schooling. you can basically get a handyman to do some of the work to the windows and to the doors and you will have a he csecure school.