Hamilton County Commissioner Wants Tasers Out of Schools

Mr. Beck's comments don't surprise me. When a student can walk out of class, pushing a teacher aside without consequences and the teacher get reprimanded for being in the student's way, we know who really rules the schools. Teachers are criticized regularly for not being able to manage students in schools, yet they are warned that if they "block" a student from walking out of class or even out of the school, they will be in trouble for "putting their hands" on a student. It's a wonder that there are teacher shortages...

Hey, I personally agree with beck. I thinkg they SHOULD take the tasers out of school. Make sure you either tase the idiots OUTSIDE or (my personal favorite), draw the sidearm and blow the fool away.

So, tell me, all you bleeding heart, liberal, entitlement greedy jack@sses, which woul YOU rather have?!

as a former police officer it think as sheriff stated it beats the alternative of use of higher power of force to stop the action i think the taser a safer alternative

Since Mr. Beck appears to think he's an "expert" on how to handle unruly teenagers why not place HIM in one of our high-risk schools and see what measures HE would take to subdue fighting between grown men (18 IS an adult) when other measures have failed. It's very easy to stand back and point fingers and say "they should have done thus-and-so" when you're not the one having to address the problem. Tasers are a VERY useful tool and fall far short of the drastic results of having to use a service weapon. If that's what it takes to control unruly students - then so be it. But I think "Mr" Beck should walk a mile in their shoes before he starts critizing others for doing their jobs.

Clearly Greg Beck does not support Students, Teachers, or our Officers in the schools. Just let commissioner Beck break up one brawl, pay all the medical expences and legal fees and write all the apologies and he might change his tune. What a failure to support our troops in trenches that really count.

It's about time someone took care of these little whippersnappers! A few volts will straighten them out.

Sheriff Hammond and the grown ups know what to do. Greg Beck needs to go to the back of the class.

Tasers aren't as bad as they are made out to be. If the student had stopped fighting as requested in the first place, the officer wouldn't have had to use it. Obviously talking didn't work. Grow Up!! Make these students and adults responsible for their actions and protect our law enforcement and others from violent situations.

I'm sure when the autopsy comes back it will find that Mr. Buckner did not die from being tased. It sounds like he had some underlying medical conditions that probably contributed to his death.

People have been tased multiple times and lived. There's usually something else that contributes to the problem (medical/health/drugs).

Besides, most people don't want to be tased and tend to cooperate. And, in the case with the teenager, the officer would have been the wrong no matter what method he/she took to control the situation.

Let me first apologize if the tone of the following comment sounds harsh. The commissioner who thinks school SROs should not be allowed to use tasers in violent situations is irresponsible to say the least. Was this commissioner present when the SRO tased the 18 year old student who happened to be fighting with another student? Can the commissioner explain why the 18 year ignored all efforts to break up the fight prior to forcing the SRO to tase him?

SROs have the heavy responsibility of keeping our students and faculty safe. The SRO even has the task of protecting the misguided student who chooses to fight or cause problems in the classroom. According to reports, the 18 year old student was tased only after he could not be subdued. He was tased to protect others from his violence and I am sure he was tased to protect him from himself.

I fear the commissioner's comments and concerns are based on race and free publicity for future elections. The commissioner is simply trying to ride the coattails of the Erlanger tasing earlier in the week. There can be NO comparison between a physically weakend, mental patient being tased by amature mall(hospital)cops and a violent 18 year old student being tased by a trained professional police officer. Shame on him and shame on the media for giving him a soapbox!

beck seem to forget when he was a jailer.there are times when such force is the olny one you have at the time of the incident. maybe beck thinks he can stop the fights, he didn't at the jail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If a big burly police officer cant handle a high school student without using a taser he has no business being an SRO.........or a police officer for that matter!