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<strong>July</strong> <strong>2022</strong> Find Us On Facebook | <strong>Norwood</strong> Town News Page 5<br />
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AND OPERATED<br />
On May 30, Chief Brooks<br />
and members of the<br />
department were on<br />
hand for a ceremony<br />
where the Free Masons<br />
of <strong>Norwood</strong> gifted the<br />
Department a memorial<br />
wreath. This wreath<br />
was placed next to the<br />
<strong>Norwood</strong> Police and<br />
Fire monument that<br />
was gifted by the Free<br />
Masons prior. Chief<br />
Brooks honored the<br />
names of the retired<br />
members of the<br />
Department who have<br />
passed away since last<br />
Memorial Day.<br />
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If we were somehow able to cure<br />
all mental illness in the United<br />
States, it’s still not likely that we<br />
would eliminate mass shootings.<br />
There are more firearms in this<br />
country than there are people,<br />
and it’s very difficult to claw that<br />
back, especially in the U.S. with<br />
330 million people.”<br />
So, if they’re not mentally ill,<br />
what’s the reason?<br />
“I think most of the reasons<br />
for these shootings are some kind<br />
of perceived grievance,” Chief<br />
Brooks opined. “The perpetrator<br />
feels like they’ve been treated improperly<br />
– like a kid being bullied<br />
at school – they identify a group<br />
responsible for that and they get<br />
even.”<br />
Because many of the mass<br />
shootings are by young men, the<br />
Chief was asked what advice he<br />
would give to parents.<br />
“Don’t let your kids have secrets,”<br />
Chief Brooks advised.<br />
“Have the password to their<br />
phones ... ask what’s going on<br />
... know who their friends are ...<br />
listen to the cues ... and, it may<br />
sound corny, but have dinner as<br />
a family and talk to each other.”<br />
If there is currently no answer<br />
to this problem, what can we do?<br />
“We have to be ready,” the<br />
Chief said. “Prevention is the<br />
best policy and we spend a lot of<br />
time and effort making sure that<br />
we are not missing any danger<br />
signs. We also work with concerned<br />
businesses in the community.<br />
Non-school shootings<br />
tend to occur on soft targets; that<br />
is, places the shooter believes he<br />
will receive little resistance. We do<br />
training for companies in town to<br />
help employees know how they<br />
should behave if something like<br />
this happens and we also talk with<br />
management and look at all the<br />
locks and access points and make<br />
recommendations accordingly.”<br />
The Department of Justice<br />
has named a team to go in and<br />
investigate the Uvalde, TX mass<br />
shooting from a response standpoint.<br />
Chief Brooks is confident<br />
that when the report is finalized,<br />
police departments around<br />
the country will have to make<br />
changes to their procedures.<br />
“I don’t anticipate that we will<br />
have to make many adjustments,<br />
but we may have to make some as<br />
well,” Chief Brooks said.<br />
Meanwhile, officers were at<br />
every school for drop-off and dismissal<br />
every day through the end<br />
of the school year; not sitting in a<br />
police car watching passively, but<br />
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