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To: neverdem
Baylor University has a dedicated force of 24 police officers who are trained and drilled to respond to a firearms attack such as that at Virginia Tech.

A whole 24 officers. Let's see 3 shifts, that's down to 8 actually on duty at any given time. Some will be on vacation, at least one will be at a desk. Say 7 officers on duty. To protect 14,000 students in dozens of buildings across several 10s of acres of land. The newest residence hall alone is 212,000-square-feet. Yeah, 7 cops are going to take *how long* to respond to a nutjob *somewhere* in all that?

At least let the faculty, staff and grad students be armed if they choose to be.

22 posted on 07/05/2007 4:20:02 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato
A whole 24 officers. Let's see 3 shifts, that's down to 8 actually on duty at any given time.

Less than that of course. There's weekends so say 3 shift/day x 7 days/week or 21 shifts per week, with 24 officers x 5 shifts/week/officer or 120 " officer shifts" to cover them. That gets it down to 40/7 or under 6 officers per shift, not counting vacations, the officer in the "command post/office", and the Chief. Say five per shift and you're probably still over estimating the number available in less than an hour.

A lot can happen in an hour.

23 posted on 07/05/2007 4:33:36 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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