Let's Quit having Stand-Alone Police Headquarters

Let's quit having stand-alone police departments, and the change might help prevent mass shootings. Let's have the police headquarters be right there at a school, a mall or other such place where there is potential for a mass shooting.

It makes sense: No one walks into a police department and starts shooting it up. (Not so likely, anyway.) Criminals have a tendency to steer clear of police departments. So, if you have the police located right with the children, that is one site that is protected. As is, police headquarters often stand alone, although often they are next to city hall, and thus help protect it.

I suggest it is a waste when the police headquarters stand alone, away from anything it could protect. You only have one headquarters (though you might have satellite offices) and coupling it at the same location as one of your schools or at one of the other places you seek to protect, utilizes the automatic protection that come just with having the police across the street, or better yet, in the same building.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765623682/Towns-schools-welcome-police.html