[HN Gopher] Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense f...
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Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense for Mass
Shootings
Author : rbanffy
Score : 28 points
Date : 2022-06-29 20:32 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| Pulcinella wrote:
| _The ZeroEyes service can cost $5,000 per month for a single high
| school with 200 cameras. Mr. Watts, whose district uses the
| service across 250 school cameras, said the cost was worth it._
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| For some reason there is always money for this nonsense but not
| things like free lunch or even like projector bulb replacements.
| swagasaurus-rex wrote:
| What are cameras going to do to stop an active shooter?
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| At best it can help guide the police, but that's a tall order
| in the moments that matter.
| feet wrote:
| The police who are waiting outside for an hour?
| landemva wrote:
| The systems are designed to enrich some tech companies who
| have relationships with schools, and let school
| administrators hire more staff and speak to parents about how
| they are doing something.
| the_lonely_road wrote:
| Large segments of America have free lunch. Some segments don't
| because we let them run their districts of the empire how they
| want to run them. Some segments of America have installed these
| cameras, most have not. Do you have any evidence that there is
| a single region of America where they have both installed these
| cameras and refused to have free lunches or are you just low
| brow bashing on America?
| wyre wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20220628220545/https://www.nytim...
| kwertyoowiyop wrote:
| The only realistic solution is machine-gun toting robots.
| mirntyfirty wrote:
| Dressed like the squid game personnel
| feet wrote:
| No no, you see the way forward is to give guns to all the
| children. A good child with a gun can take out a bad child with
| a gun!
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXeMoBPSDk
| Zardoz84 wrote:
| far more cheap it's regulating weapons like we do on Europe.
| thelibrarian wrote:
| Treating a symptom rather than the disease always works so well.
| random-human wrote:
| The money would be better spent on getting the students and their
| families the mental, educational and financial support needed for
| everyone's well being. It may not stop shooters, cause shooters
| are gonna shoot - like it or not, they will just move to sporting
| events or similar. In Texas, Friday High School football games
| regularly have 5-10k+ people attending regular season games -
| more on rivals and playoffs. School door locks and cameras aren't
| going to help them there. And, if they can't get guns legally,
| they can get them from Mexico smugglers, gangs, etc. It's not
| terribly difficult
|
| Reminds me of a time in middle school, before all this school
| shooter nonsense; a friends father was moving his kids to private
| school and when I asked why, I was told he wanted them in a safer
| (richer) school. I was confused and replied that our school was
| safe, "we have full time cops at the school" - his reply was,
| "exactly, the point is that there shouldn't be". It was profound
| for me at the time, and thinking about it - it was normal to look
| out the class window and see cop cars and k-9s and hear stories
| about drugs and weapons being found. Classrooms were packed and
| teachers still didn't get much support from the district.
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