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TopicWhat kind of punishment do you believe former parkland h.s.
adjl
06/10/23 2:11:13 PM
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Ozmose posted...
Sadly there's no real legal punishment for cowardice.

Mostly because putting people in jail just because lots of people are mad at them doesn't really work.

Ozmose posted...
Depending on what official capacity you work in, dereliction of duty can be applied, but I doubt that's something they could charge a school resource officer with.

Pretty much. Realistically, the extent of what can actually be done is to charge him with failing to uphold whatever responsibilities he officially had. If he had no official responsibility to put himself in harm's way to such an extent, there's no basis to charge him for not doing so. If he did, then here is a basis for shirking that responsibility.

The long-term effect of this trial may be to codify such a responsibility into the job descriptions for SRO's, after which point there'd be a case for dereliction or negligence or something, but I don't know that there is one now.

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