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Even after shootings, security can lag behind  view story
Saturday, March 12, 2005
MIKE JOHNSON - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Milwaukee County has had its own deadly courtroom shooting, nearly three years ago when a murder defendant bolted from his chair and wrestled a gun away from a deputy.
Another police officer shot and killed the man before anyone else was fatally injured.
That shooting emphasized the need for tighter security and prompted several changes. Among them: shackling defendants to a bolt in the floor, making high-risk defendants wear stun belts that can immediately disable them and making deputies wear "high-security holsters."
But lessons learned from courtroom shootings don't always lead to better security.
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