Pete Pochowski,
Milwaukee Public Schools
Hand Wringer

After Cazenovia, Wisconsin, Weston High School Principal John Klang was shot and killed by 15 year old student Eric Hainstock last Friday, prior to the Nickel Mine, Pa. Amish school child murders on October 3rd and the Bailey, Colorado school killings the day before, a Milwaukee Director of Public School Safety sees no need for training and arming school officials to protect school children.

Astonishingly, he's a former Captain of the Milwaukee Police Department, (now in charge of Public School Regional Safety for Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin) notable for focused public safety comments like the following:

"I grew up in District Six and started my police career as a beat cop there 20 years ago, and I was appalled by what I saw when I was reassigned to the area in 1993," says Captain Peter Pochowski of the Milwaukee Police Department. "It had become Milwaukee's worst area for graffiti [emphasis mine]."

If you have read the UPDATE #2 at the next post down in this blog, you have a taste of what a fool this man is. He opposes trained, armed guards and/or teachers in our public schools as opposed to his proposed solution which is... ???

But to anyone who has followed his history of do nothing effectiveness pertaining to his actual job, it should be viewed as his normal conduct. In addition to numerous other notable beatings in Milwaukee preceding this story and a 13 year old student who shot another student in the toe at school while showing him his gun, he has yet another child student's death on his watch as recently as March of this year:

Boy, 15, dies after beating

Family and friends of Raheim Patrick, the 15-year-old boy who was attacked at a bus stop and later died, said they could think of no reason why anyone would want to harm the teen, according to MPS officials who met with his mother and others Thursday night.

And Pochowski had similar moronic comments he made following this senseless, unnecessary death:

"He just didn't have any problems like that," said Pete Pochowski, director of security for Milwaukee Public Schools.

Pochowski said the district is assessing what security measures, if any [emphasis mine], should change as a result of Patrick's death.

"A lot of that will depend on what police say," Pochowski said. "Right now, they're following up with anybody he had any disagreements with, but there's absolutely nothing along those lines. There's no motive."

Well, there we go, huh? There's no motive so 'everybody just move along, now ...nothing to see here anymore'.

Nope, not anymore... these children are dead.

PETER POCHOWSKI,
Director of Safety
(Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin)
Milwaukee Public Schools
3841 W. St. Paul Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53208

TEL: 414-345-6635
E-Mail: midwestdirector@nassleo.org















*UPDATE*

Here is a poll sponsored by NBC11 in Milwaukee San Francisco (thank you for catching that, Kate!) asking whether you feel there should be armed and trained personel at our public schools that you can participate in.