Organic School Security
This article touches on how a Representative and the schools in his district are reacting to inadequate federal funding for school security – emphasis mine –
“You’ve told me that federal efforts in school preparedness are uncoordinated and create confusion,” Etheridge said. “The survey found that your schools are feeling the squeeze of federal budget cuts in emergency preparedness.”
Etheridge said he plans to use the results to lobby for more funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But he said the outlook is bleak.
“For the 2007 fiscal year, the president has requested no funding for (school preparedness grants under) the Safe and Drug-Free Schools program,” he said.
There is hope however, in the last quote of the article –
“We’ve got to get with our communities, churches and parents to prevent things like that beforehand,” he said. “We’re not going to stand for violence in schools.”
If this situation rings true across the board, most school districts in the country, maybe the above mentioned contraints will spark innovation and the result will be some form of organic security. These will be the the building blocks of definitive organic security structures (which will rise after a critical level of terror attacks has been achieved).
We began to see the basic steps in this direction after the various school shootings but with limited follow through (critical level of attacks has not been reached).
-Shlok
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