High School Lockdown Today

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8:30 this morning the chief tells me she is going to the high school for a problem to do with an email threat. The chief and three officers, my shift, goes with her. When they arrive at the high school they find the dufuss, who emailed the threat to the principal is still on line at another school in town.

Chief calls and tells me to have everyone else surround this alternative school in the center of town because thats where the threat came from. This is the type of school where the kids that go there are basically troublemakers, criminal types, and just can't get by in a regular classroom. Most all come from a disadvataged background. They know right from wrong though. I call it the Montessori School for Hooligans. A kind of free range student atmosphere. Most of the time the students are free ranging in the back parking lot having a butt with one of the teachers or getting one of the teachers a coffee in Dunks across the street. They gave up on any dicipline a long time ago.
So while the whole high school is in lockdown, we are having continuous interviews in the station of students present when the perp pressed the send button an arrest was made this afternoon at 3:15 p.m. That email threat had to cost in excess of $50,000.00, without a doubt.

I think I had about 100 calls from concerned parents. All with the exception of two or three took it pretty good. One became really pissed off at me. Some people no matter what you say they don't believe you. After all it is thier children. Speaking of which the kids did great during the whole thing. All behaved and not one problem.