School Lockdowns Are a the New Thing

When bureaucrats behave in predictable ways, they open themselves up to people gaming the system. High school students do love to game the system. SPASH lockdown part of nationwide false active shooter threats - Wausau Pilot & Review

A report of an active shooter inside Stevens Point Area Senior High with several people shot is one of a flurry of false threats reported nationwide, officials said.

According to Point Plover Metro Wire, Stevens Point Police Lt. Joe Johnson confirmed receipt of a 911 call with the false report. The caller was male with a heavy accent and was the only call received in Stevens Point reporting such an incident.

Sarah O’Donnell, communications director for the district, told PPMW there is a slew of false alarms across Wisconsin and Minnesota on Thursday.

Click thru for more details. The interesting thing is that in at least one case the police seem to have reacted in exactly the same way police in Uvalde, Texas reacted. Set up a perimeter, and stop parents - or anyone else - from entering the school. If it had been a real active shooter, it would have probably been a repeat of the Uvalde tragedy.

In September in San Antonio, for example, when parents responded to a school en masse after receiving a lockdown alert some scuffled with officers outside the building as panic ensued. One man punched his fist through a window to try to enter the building, according to the Associated Press. That call was later deemed a hoax.

When exactly are cops going to learn that the "set up a perimeter" idea is stupid?

People are stupid, but so are police.