By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO)  Taping “Connected to Chicago with Bill Cameron” for Sunday night at 7, Paul Vallas, the former CEO of the Chicago Public Schools who is now running for mayor, talked about how to prevent school massacres like today’s in Santa Fe,Texas.

Vallas says there’s no substitute for simple raw intelligence gathering to detect troubled students telegraphing their problems before they act out.   He says he established hotlines for this when he ran the schools here in Chicago and Philadelphia.

“There were cases where something might be communicated about someone who has suicidal tendencies, an individual who had serious drug problems that were not being addressed, cases where we got intel about students bringing guns to school, Vallas said, “I remember a cases where students had an uzi and they buried an uzi across the street from the school or somebody actually got an automatic weapon in the school. We got the intel and got in the locker and there it was fully loaded!”

If he becomes mayor, Vallas says he’d be bolstering this approach with internet social networks.

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