659: Before the Next One
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It's a school trying to do the right thing. The school trying something new, trying to keep its students safe. So they've bought handguns, seven of them, Glock nine millimeters to use if a shooter comes into their building. At a week and a half before school started, after a bunch of training, they were running their first drill in the school building with their guns. Fresh out of the boxes. - Yeah, we gotta make sure they're all out. We all should be. - The building's mostly empty, no kids around. It's a district in Murillo, Ohio that let us record on the condition that we not say their name on the air. It's eight people on this team. Only two teachers volunteered for it. The rest are a guidance counselor, two custodians, and the three administrators who run the school. One of them is the only woman on the team. Producer Lisa Pollack wants them doing this. Lisa, explain how this works exactly. - Okay, so the seven guns are locked in these small safes that have been installed in locations all over the school. I saw them run a bunch of drills. And in all of them, the goal was to run to the near safe, get the gun out of the safe, and then get to where the shooter is as soon as possible. And they time each drill. - Okay, we're gonna play tape for this. I just wanna warn listeners they're allowed gunshots from blanks that they fire during these drills. - So the first little glitch they came to was that some of the team members actually had trouble getting into the safes. You have to put your finger on the sensor. - It's like a fingerprint thing. - Right, and it's a little tricky. - Not working. (jazz music) (beeping) - I don't know what to do with this. - There's a sheriff's deputy. He's playing the shooter. (gun firing) I'm following a guy named John. He's the principal for grades six through 12. He's running from his office, darts by the cafeteria.
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