Welcome back, everyone. We continue to follow our
breaking news tonight out of Midwood where parents and school
safety advocates are expressing concerns tonight. After police say
a student at Edward R. Murrow high school was
stabbed in the stomach while school was in session news
. Twelve's Caitlyn Ulrich is outside of Mao's Medical Center
tonight where the victim is being treated for non life
threatening injuries. She joins us right now with more
about the safety measures at the school. Kaitlin.
Yeah. Well, Kurt Ed R. Murrow is
one of the city public schools that exists without metal
detectors, which is something school safety advocates are pushing
to change. And today Mayor Adams addressed the absence
of these scanners in some public schools. And so
the police department and the Department of Education and School
Safety uh uh leaders, uh they're going to continue
to do an analysis and determine which schools we should
have those scanners. And we're continuously look at looking
at ways of having non intrusive scanners. Mayor Adams
making it clear that he's in full support of metal
detectors in schools though how to do it without creating
a quote jail like presence in schools is essential.
He says pushback from some needs to be considered because
young people have also raised their voice on that feeling
as well. The mayor needs to listen more to
the majority, not the loud minority. Mona Davids
is the founder of the NYC School Safety Coalition,
a group that she says has pushed four detectors at
Ed R Murrow for two years today. Mayor Adams
didn't say if the high school would be one to
get those scanners because no parent wants to get the
phone call that your child has been stabbed or shot
in school. Another concern for David's is the understaffed
agents. Currently, there is one supervisor at level
three and seven school safety agents. Edward Al Murrow
high School is understaffed Edward Al Murrow high School is
supposed to have um, one supervisor and 11 school
safety agents. Yeah. Well, just this November
, the city actually cut a graduating class of 250
school safety agents. Though today, Mayor Adams did
say he would never accept the elimination of S SAS
in public schools. Uh We were planning to ask
him if there was any intent on uh, returning
that class, but we didn't get selected to ask
our question in Borough Park for News 12. I'm
Caitlyn Ri back to you all.