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Retired Secret Service agent had warned Stoneman Douglas about security failures
Sun Sentinel ^ | 6-8-2018 | Lisa J. Huriash

Posted on 06/10/2018 7:14:48 PM PDT by servo1969

Wexler retired from the Secret Service in 2014 after 27 years with the agency.

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He had offered in the past to make security recommendations. The district “finally took me up on the offer” in December when a teacher on behalf of the school’s security committee asked him to conduct a “site survey” of the campus. Was school security sufficient? they wanted to know.

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He said he printed out details about the school: its floor plan, bell schedule and an aerial map.

Then he arrived early for his meeting Dec. 13 and pulled his truck into the visitor’s parking lot.

The gate was open, as it should be at that time, but he sat there for 20 minutes, he said, and no security approached him.

Then, he summoned Assistant Principal Winfred Porter to his truck and asked permission to go on a demonstration before their meeting at 1 p.m.

With Porter as his passenger, Wexler moved his truck into the bus loop through an open gate. “Why the heck was it unlocked” at midday, he wondered.

With Porter watching from afar, he wandered into the school breezeway, surrounded by students and staff, then walked through an open back door to the administration building.

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Assistant Principal Denise Reed was the first adult he saw inside, he said. He handed her the first sticky. It said “1.”

She was the first “victim” who could have been shot or stabbed.

Then he went to the second spot, posting Post-it notes on desks and on door jambs.

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He had gone through all 20 Post-its when he reached Deputy Scot Peterson’s office.

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“Mr. Porter, I ran out of numbers. You want me to keep going?” he asked.

But he had made his point.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; browardcounty; education; florida; hogg; nra; parkland; scottisrael; secondamendment
From day one many people in the Parkland school system and local government have had a vested interest in making certain everyone screams for the NRA's blood and not theirs.
1 posted on 06/10/2018 7:14:49 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969
But he had made his point.

To people without an imagination and who probably didn't care.

2 posted on 06/10/2018 7:36:00 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: servo1969

This guy will be the friend of the litigants. The district is going to need a little more funding.


3 posted on 06/10/2018 7:39:41 PM PDT by lurk
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To: servo1969

With everything that has come out I think the Democratic Party staged this shooting so they could have martyrs.


4 posted on 06/10/2018 7:41:20 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Retvet

I dont think i would go that far because there is no evidence to support it. But I think they are culpable with Obama’a Keep Criminals in School policy which they touted as a big success.


5 posted on 06/10/2018 7:50:16 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: Retvet; All

With everything that has come out I think the Democratic Party staged this shooting so they could have martyrs.

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You speak the absolute truth.


6 posted on 06/10/2018 7:55:09 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Retvet

“...With everything that has come out I think the Democratic Party staged this shooting so they could have martyrs.....”

Not too far off. FWIW, I think the UniParty Deep State has staged practically ALL of em since Columbine as a means to push the confiscation of firearms from the “unwashed masses” because they know what’s coming and it’s not good for them.
It is suspected that they somehow use a simple cell phone call to “trigger” these MK ULTRA zombies into doing their dirty wet works.


7 posted on 06/10/2018 7:57:17 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Retvet
With everything that has come out I think the Democratic Party staged this shooting so they could have martyrs.

I figure out that I can (a) be an advocate for getting rid of the Second Amendment (which I hate) by (b) not doing my job, while (c) collecting a generous paycheck in a job I can't be fired from.

What do you think I'm going to do? I'll tell what: I'm going to look up at the clear blue sky, and say "what a country!"

8 posted on 06/10/2018 8:03:19 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: servo1969

At some point blame will shift to the school board, school administrators, the sheriff, and the deputies. Even the FBI. All had a hand in facilitating the killer’s continued presence and his unfettered killing spree. It is blood on their hands they will eventually have to answer for.


9 posted on 06/10/2018 8:15:41 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Here’s an old idea that Parkland and other schools should have had in effect decades ago.

When there was a rash of false fire-alarms pulled within the schools, some schools put cameras up covering the facial area of the person who pulled the alarm. That way a number of students were caught and dealt with.

Let’s take technology a bit further and have every school fire-alarm (the same for libraries, movie theaters, civic centers, etc.) be covered by a hidden camera that shows who is pulling the alarm, but ALSO having an intercom right above the alarm so that the puller CAN TALK TO THE SCHOOL SECURITY PEOPLE AND TELL THEM WHAT THEY SEE GOING ON.

This way at least the school will know who pulled the alarm, and what to look for as a safety threat either inside or outside of the school. Thus is a shooter sets off an alarm in the hopes of getting more targets out into the open (hallways, stairs, front doors, etc). Security People can alert the students/teachers/staff to STAY PUT until the threat is found to be real (i.e. a fire, smoke, gas leak, or shooter).

Then the Administration can decide whether to lockdown every classroom or to evacuate.

While the costs would be significant for large schools, etc., we are not dealing with rocket science. We are dealing with already existing alarm/communications/monitoring systems that just need to be linked up as one unit per spot and connected to a central Security/Safety Office and the Principal’s office.

I assume that every teaching room still has some kind of inter-com system for announcements so all the new systems would have done to them is to link them into the already existing wiring. The same for the fire-alarms in the halls.

We are proposing this to the schools our grandchildren go to. Just hope they have attentive and intelligence leaders in them.


10 posted on 06/10/2018 9:56:42 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Retvet
With everything that has come out I think the Democratic Party staged this shooting so they could have martyrs.

"Staged" is too strong a word. It is more likely that socialists are simply indifferent. If you ignore enough warnings, eventually there will be a shooting and you can try to grab guns one more time. Enough grab attempts, and they hope to strike the right tone and win. Then they have the absolute power they have dreamed of since the socialists of the 1930s and 1940s failed.

They are okay with 25 kids dead, 25 million dead, or far more, if that brings communism. Me? I'm okay with any price to preserve freedom. When the second civil war gets hot, I expect at least 50 million dead, including collateral damage. Even that would be far better than putting the richest and most powerful country in human history into the hands of totalitarian thugs. My Oath had no expiration date and no limitations on the price to be paid.

11 posted on 06/11/2018 2:38:14 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: lgjhn23
I think the UniParty Deep State has staged practically ALL of em since beginning with Columbine as a means to push the confiscation of firearms from the “unwashed masses” because they know what’s coming and it’s not good for them

Fixed

Columbine coincided with the anniversary of Waco.

12 posted on 06/11/2018 5:13:50 AM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: servo1969

BECAUSE AN INCOMPETENT GOV. EMPLOYEE FORGOT HOW TO LOGIN TO THE DATA BASE, WASN’T FIRED FOR A YEAR.

Florida revoked 291 concealed weapons permits after an employee stopped reviewing background checks

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/10/us/florida-revoked-weapons-permits-background-checks/index.html


13 posted on 06/11/2018 6:04:37 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO Wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: lurk

This guy will be the friend of the litigants. The district is going to need a little more funding.
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I am in agreement with your assessment. Right after this happened I opined that the cost to the School District and County to settle the litigation would/will be upwards of $500 million (that is HALF-A-BILLION DOLLARS). The evil, lazy bastards - and there were several of them (IMO) were guilty of gross negligence (a/k/a “extremely careless” in Comey-Speak), in my opinion.


14 posted on 06/11/2018 7:23:44 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: lurk
This guy will be the friend of the litigants. The district is going to need a little more funding.

Wonder what their insurance policy limits are?

15 posted on 06/11/2018 7:27:49 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: joshua c

Go back over to DU, troll.


16 posted on 06/11/2018 3:10:40 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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