Jersey Mike

Just got a phone call from a reliable source who told me that Linda Thompson is apparently pulling the six assigned officers out of Harrisburg schools because “There’s no problem in the schools and the only thing the cops are doing is intimidating the children.”

Another misguided, megalomania-showing move by MFN LDT.

The woman isn’t qualified to make a decision like that. Not after six months on the job. And certainly not with the ongoing turmoil at the Harrisburg School District.

Police in schools (especially schools in an urban, inner-city environment) aren’t uncommon in the post-Columbine days. Even before the Colorado massacre, city police regularly patrolled the hallways of some of the more aggressive schools.

Because schoolchildren whose parents don’t care about what they do at or away from school tend to bring things like guns and knives to school – thereby requiring a police presence to deter bad behavior.

If it’s true that Thompson DID order the police out of Harrisburg schools, then this woman just got six times crazier in my book.

Can things get any worse?

You betcha.