State Police veteran Frank Monaco says it's time to get serious about the growing number of social media threats made against local schools.
Monaco tells Marty Griffin on NewsRadio KDKA that school leaders need to quit looking the other way:
“There’s a lot of school districts, I’ve done research on it that have taken that tact, that they’re not going to shut things down . . . putting (students) in a certain place and them putting them right back in again when there’s no bomb and that has worked in many school districts but if you’re going to look the other way, at the end of the day, how long are you going to let somebody victimize the whole school district with an anonymous call? Its insanity,” said Monaco.
Monaco says that while every bomb threat needs to be taken seriously, in all his decades of law enforcement experience, no bomb was ever found following a threat against a school.
There have been over half a dozen threats around the Pittsburgh area this week along, including two on Friday directed at Pittsburgh Public Schools and Clairton.