OT Parkland School Cop Scot Peterson Arrested

[MarAzul]

I agree with you that a guy about to retire should not be given such a position

Well, it depends on the guy, but I think it is pretty clear in this case. Hell, and old retiree might be the ferocious dude you need.
This guy ain't it.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Wait, so the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun but the good guy with a gun doesn't have to do it if he's old?

 

[Chris Craig]

Wait, so the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun but the good guy with a gun doesn't have to do it if he's old?

Apparently

 

[Lanny]

Actually I didn't know being a coward was a criminal offense.

It should be.
Being a coward when it comes to serving in Vietnam should be a criminal offense.

 

[Lanny]

We'll see what his training for this situation will reveal.

"Shoot bad guys with guns" sounds nice, but it may not be what his training told him to do.

I was trained for those situations and we were trained not to run like a coward.

 

[Lanny]

If his job is to protect the students and he purposely did not (whether due to cowardice or other reasons), I can see how he could be guilty of criminal neglect. Just as a babysitter who doesn't pay attention to a small child while it does something dangerous and ends up killing itself could be liable criminally for neglect. When your job involves safeguarding others and you purposely neglect to do so, you may be legally responsible.

Maybe he was protecting other things such as his own ass.

 

[Lanny]

Was this guy a cop? Or was he just a school security guard who had a license to carry?

If its the latter, I would see him not signing up for that kind of bullshit. Kind of a little bitch for doing so, but he was probably some old guy who needed a job, not thinking he would be die on the job with crazed school shooters.

What do you think the job description of a security guard would entail? Running away?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

What do you think the job description of a security guard would entail? Running away?

Yea

 

[noknobs]

Wow the prosecutors want the death penalty, they're not messing around. This would definitely set some precedents that I think need to be thought about long and hard before doing.

It's unfortunate that in this country, anyone who accepts the responsibility of being a security officer at a school needs to be fully prepared to face down automatic weapons on their own and ready to give their life, but that is the reality and it has been for some time. You can't be in the position of protecting children if your first instinct is to not run toward the threat until the children are safe. You can't claim "miscommunication" as the reason you stood outside on your phone while their are screams and gunshots going on. Regardless of training, if you've never been in a situation like that it's impossible to know how you're going to react, and if you don't know that then you shouldn't be there to begin with.

It still feels odd that he could get a similar sentence as the actual shooter.

 

[illmatic99]

As a tangential note, considering how important this kinda job is, you'd expect them to pay more than 30k a year. Maybe then, you'd get some better candidates and someone useful.

 

[Lanny]

As a tangential note, considering how important this kinda job is, you'd expect them to pay more than 30k a year. Maybe then, you'd get some better candidates and someone useful.

That's approximately $15/hour.
Yep, that's very low and you can't expect the best candidates to accept at that low rate.
However, 99.99% of the time the job would entail a lot of nothing more than being nice to the children. Seems like you wouldn't pay more for that part. But, you do need to be ready to defend the all important children, which should come naturally no matter what the pay is.

 

[Lanny]

I agree with you that a guy about to retire should not be given such a position

Older guards would seem to be the most loyal.