Bill Bennett's $100 Billion School Safety Plan
Former SecEd Bill Bennett floated a school safety plan today:
Find me the back of an envelope, will you?
There are nearly 100,000 schools in the United States. I think you're going to need way more than 100,000 armed public safety officers to cover all those schools, but let's be conservative and keep the number for our purposes.
You need to pay these people, give them benefits (heaven forbid!), train them, equip them, and so on. I think avery conservative estimate would be $100,000 per officer per year.
That's $100,000,000,000 - a hundred billion dollars - every year to have a dedicated, armed officer in every public
Find me the back of an envelope, will you?
There are nearly 100,000 schools in the United States. I think you're going to need way more than 100,000 armed public safety officers to cover all those schools, but let's be conservative and keep the number for our purposes.
You need to pay these people, give them benefits (heaven forbid!), train them, equip them, and so on. I think avery conservative estimate would be $100,000 per officer per year.
That's $100,000,000,000 - a hundred billion dollars - every year to have a dedicated, armed officer in every public
