Buffalo cops are being called so often to respond to violence in Buffalo schools that it is stretching the police department thin and making it difficult for officers to respond to other calls for help, the Buffalo News reports in the second installment of a 2-part series.

Said Buffalo teachers union boss Phil Rumore: "Kids don't fight in church. They don't fight at Kaufmann's. They should know there are no fights in schools. You can't just accept that there are going to be a certain amount of fights. There should be no fights."

School officials, ripping a page from the secret handbook for superintendents nationwide, said it is a perception problem, and that the schools are getting better at dealing with crimes. Educrats are particularly worried that the public may be getting the wrong impression from something they are now calling "The Lafayette Tape" that has been airing on local television.

"The Lafayette tape" refers to footage captured Dec. 14, when two fights
broke out simultaneously on two separate floors of the high school and
spilled outside onto the street. One girl was hospitalized with a stab
wound, and two faculty members - including Assistant Principal Lisa K.
Robinson - were injured breaking up another fight.

Anyone think the girl who was hospitalized with the stab wound, or the two faculty members who were injured, view this thing as a perception problem?