PETERS – It’s time to equip our schools with surveillance cameras

Posted on September 21, 2019 in Local Voices, Page One, Peters // 0 Comments

(Image: CFJC Today)

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER CHILDISH THREAT against a school in Kamloops.

Valleyview Secondary, Sa-Hali Secondary and now Dallas Elementary have been tagged so far.

Of course, authorities must not call it childish.

They have to take it very seriously, effect an evacuation, and do an investigation.

And rightly so.

Imagine if we just assumed these threats were all the work of pranksters, and then one turned out to be serious

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James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.

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