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There was a discussion about this a week or so ago as a handful of states passed laws barring police video from FOIA requests. The issue here is that the camera records EVERYTHING. Meaning that when you and your wife have a loud fight that gets the cops called on you, the explanation of everything you were fighting over is now available for anyone to see, as you explain it to the cops. There's also a great video of your house interior up now; something that could be used to find the best way to break into your place.

If you want me to explain more about what I'd actually do on watch, let me know

I'd love to hear about what a watch is for you so I can compare it to a US Navy watch. I have to feel it's a lot of the same stuff.

There's a game to boot called "how long can I go without my instructors knowing my name", and playing it will do you well. The common advice offered is always applicable too: keep your eyes and ears open, and your mouth fucking shut.

Well... even though I just said all that shit above here, I have very little training (well, zero really) on how to do all that crap alone. All of our drills and training are team or squad based. The same principles apply, theoretically, but I have no practical application on it. There is a really well reviewed program called ALICE (http://www.alicetraining.com/) and they run a single-man active shooter response training program designed for SRO's or similar personnel. I'd really like to go someday, but it's very costly and the chance of the PD and school district ponying up are about zilcho, nada, negatory. A man can dream.

Everything I've got from BLET says sit around and wait until three other officers show up. I gotta be honest, even just getting training on how to do this kind of stuff with one other officer would be awesome. Much like your desire to go to ALICE(never heard of it, thanks for the new dream material), the chances of getting training on how to do it with two is zero I suspect.

You know what the district did with it? Nothing. Then they ejected him because he was making too many waves, and spending too much time doing district safety stuff than paying attention to his assigned school. So that's kind of a bummer.

Ugh, this is the kind of stuff that really makes me wonder about our school systems. However, I'm not at all surprised. Safety is that thing that no one wants to talk about unless someone gets hurt.

County radio would put my broadcast on countywide emergency if a shooting occurred and everyone everywhere would hear everything I had to say.

Every department in my area runs on a different radio system. I am suddenly in serious envy of the fact your area has a single system.

I'm sure everyone else wants to talk about the girl getting removed, but I'm a bit more interested in the longer media attention with schools. How much preparation do you have to responding to an active shooter? Do you feel like you have adequate training for an active shooter considering how unlikely you are to encounter an active shooter? Do you have any tactical info you'd want officers responding to an active shooter to know(something like a 150 yard hallway that would require a long gun to traverse)? How would you get that info to a responding officer, especially if he's not someone local to the area(example being someone transporting a prisoner to another county or evidence by hand).