An article in the New York Post, (10/20/2021) reported that School Safety Officers seized 3 guns from students at NYC schools.
All of the handguns were loaded. Three guns were confiscated from city students inside high school buildings in a matter of hours on Wednesday — two in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn, sources told The Post. In addition, an 18-year-old student refused to pass through a metal detector at the Mott Haven Educational Campus in the Bronx where scanners are installed on random days, according to law enforcement sources. He ran from the building and attempted to hide a .22-caliber pistol in his backpack, sources said. First lady Dr. Jill Biden was in New York Wednesday for a visit to a public school in the Bronx. One of the schools did not have a metal detector but the vigilance of the School Resource Officers caught the individual.
A school staffer added that some kids bring weapons to school as aggressors, while others do so out of concern for their own safety. School sources told The Post that gang violence— especially in The Bronx — simmered on the street while schools were closed due to the coronavirus.
A recent Post analysis of NYPD data found that at least 21 teens were killed by either knives or guns between January and Sept. 30, 2021. That was more than three times the number for the same period in both 2019 and 2020.
I am in the final stages of finishing a book entitled, Preventing School Violence: A User’s Guide which will be published before the end of the year.
One of the suggestions in the book is that anyone who enters a school (elementary, middle, or high) must use a clear plastic book bag. That would prevent anyone who attempted to bring a weapon (gun or knife) would be prevented from doing so.