Credible Threat: LA School District Closes. Terrorism? Or Overreaction By A Nervous Country?

Credible Threat: LA School District Closes. Terrorism? Or Overreaction By A Nervous Country?

Here along the Colorado Front Range, schools are closed due to 8+ inches of snow and blizzard conditions. However, in Los Angeles CA, it is a VERY different story.

Closing the entire school district in Los Angeles is no small feat.

LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines
LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines

After LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines consulted with Los Angeles School Police Department Chief Steven Zipperman and School Board President Steve Zimmer, they made the decision to close the schools until further notice.

The threat, which was against “many schools,” was received electronically and mentioned backpacks and other packages, Cortines said at a morning news conference. The nature of the threat was “unspecified.”

The students and teachers already at the schools have been sent home. Bus drivers were called back to the bus depots.

LAUSD School Bus Garage
LAUSD School Bus Garage

Meanwhile law enforcement along with the plant managers will be thoroughly searching every building in the school district through the rest of the day…and likely into tomorrow given the size and extent of the nation’s second largest school district. Understandably, Superintendent Cortines has to treat this threat seriously.

“I, as the superintendent, am not going to take the chance with the life of a student,” Cortines said at the news conference.

Now we have law enforcement resources stretched even thinner while dealing with this threat. Is this threat real or is it a hoax? Problem is…we’re in a bad spot. How do we discern who is crying wolf and who is ACTUALLY the wolf right now. Given how our current Administration is handling everything that is remotely terror related – I think we have been thrust into a place where we have to treat threats like this as credible until shown otherwise.

UPDATE 9:30 AM PT: The Associated Press is reporting that NYC officials say they received the same threat, and that they’ve concluded “it was a hoax.”

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