Monday, April 15, 2013
Cobb Police Precinct 2 offers advice and tips on how to protect yourself and others during an "active shooter" incident.
Precinct 2 of the Cobb County Police Department, which serves the Smyrna-Vinings area, offers the following advice and tips on how to protect yourself and others during an "active shooter" incident. The mere utterance of the phrase “active shooter” sends chills down the spine of all good citizens. Fifteen years ago, this phrase didn’t exist in our lexicon. Now, it’s a reality. We’ve all seen the news footage of our country’s most recent and notorious active shootings in Aurora, CO and Newtown, CT. It’s not necessary to rehash the ugly details of such horrific events. No one wants to think about being caught up in a mass shooter situation, and I’m sure the folks in Aurora and Newtown, plus the students at Columbine and Virginia Tech never …
Friday, December 28, 2012
An expert shares advice for parents who are trying to explain the Newtown school shooting to their kids.
In the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting tragedy, parents are wondering what to tell their children about what happened and how to help them process what they may be hearing from friends, on television and via social media. Lauren Hutchinson, LMFT is a child and family therapist and parenting consultant with a practice in Bellevue, WA. She says step one for parents is to “turn off the TV”. “We don’t want to have the TV playing in the background all the time. It isn’t helpful and the news is traumatizing for kids to watch.” For kids age seven and younger Hutchinson says, “you want to shield them from the media coverage completely and parents should not initiate a conversation about the event because kids this age cannot make sense of …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Smyrna-Vinings Patch and Patch sites nationwide will participate in an online moment of silence in memory of the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Smyrna-Vinings Patch will go dark at 9:30am on Friday, Dec. 21. And so will thousands of other websites across the country. Patch and other online companies are taking part of an online moment of silence in memory of the victims of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The event will last one minute. As of 6pm Thursday, more than 130,000 people took the pledge on Causes.com. Websites wishing to participate can embed a green ribbon on their site, like the one you see in this article. Twitter users are also asked to use the hashtag #momentforSandyHook to show their support. Online entities can also visit webmomentofsilence.org for a JavaScript code to automatically darken their site at 9:30am. The website will turn gray and a white …
Could the shooting that took place in Connecticut happen at your child's school?
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
The Connecticut shooting has awakened many parents, especially me. Most teachers and school administrators focus on ways to make sure students are present in class, safely getting to the right bus and safely making it home, but the thought of some random person walking into your school and shooting students is not something that we prepare for. Every school goes through the traditional fire drill and hurricane drill, but what about the “Stranger-Danger” drill? The president said it best that this is becoming all too familiar to our nation. So is your child’s school safe? Over the last two months, I took the time to visit a few elementary schools. My son will be attending kindergarten next year so before we make the move, I wanted to make …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Law enforcement agencies are assisting with patrols in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shootings.
Cobb County School District officials spent a busy weekend requesting law enforcement assistance and briefing school principals, teachers and staff about security measures in the wake of Friday's deadly school shootings in Newtown, Conn. On Monday, Cobb County police and law enforcement from other Cobb cities were making safety rounds at schools. "Our precinct patrol officers are driving by all schools in their assigned beats," Cobb Police Department Spokesman Michael Bowman told Patch. Cobb schools spokesman Doug Goodwin said the district has a 44-member full-time security staff that works out of high schools and middle schools but not elementary schools for "resource" reasons. He said the extra police patrols will continue on an …
userbronco
12:25 am on Saturday, December 22, 2012
NothIng can prevent nut jobs from doing these things So you're causation correlation thing , Since mentally ill nut job steals guns and uses them. You ignore that the other 98 million gun owners didn't murder anyone means nothing? more ›