Weeks after the Uvalde school shooting, 120 members of the Texas School District Police Chiefs’ Association gathered for an already scheduled conference where they learned the latest ways to assess and deal with active-shooter threats.
Solomon Cook, chief of police for Humble ISD, welcomed attendees to a presentation Friday during the Texas School District Police Chiefs’ Association conference., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
And they came here to San Antonio, about 95 miles east of Uvalde, barely two weeks after the deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary School left 19 children and two teachers dead. It’s a raw time for school district officers as police in Texas and nationwide have criticized one of their own.
But for the last six years, Avera’s been police chief at the school district in Jacksonville, which is about 20 miles south of Tyler. The school district and the town are about the same size as Uvalde, a fact not lost on Avera and other chiefs here this week.In Texas, only 309 of its 1,200 school districts have police forces separate from their cities’ departments.
After Columbine, things changed. School district police officers were asked to be in common areas inside schools rather than remaining in their cars or offices, waiting to be called. They were also being used too often as disciplinarians and were issuing citations, said David Kimberly, the outgoing Klein ISD police chief.
In Klein ISD where Kimberly works, there are more than 52,700 students and 52 buildings. The police department has 60 officers on staff and enough firepower to deal with almost any threat, he said. His department trains other police departments as well, and he said it is seen as a role model police force.
More training doesn’t seem to be an issue; officers have been told since the 1999 Columbine shooting that they must engage a shooter immediately. But each situation is different and nuanced, Avera said.
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