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A 2021 study of national school-level data from 2014 to 2018 by the University at Albany and the RAND corporation found that school resource officers reduce some forms of violence but they don’t ...
Ray Hall, school police officer in Texas. A coalition of over 100 education and civil rights groups called the Dignity In Schools Campaign released a set of recommendations in September, saying social workers and intervention workers should replace police officers in schools. There are 1.6 million students across the country who have a cop in ...
The number of police officers in schools has ballooned amid high-profile incidents of school violence — like the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 — and new tough-on-crime, zero-tolerance policies. In 1997 only 10 percent of public schools had police officers; in 2014, 30 percent did. It’s a natural instinct to want to protect children.
“It really is not about security and making sure that a building has a person who has a gun and a badge.”
In the wake of the deadly Uvalde school shooting, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver explored the argument that police make schools safer. Republican lawmakers like Sen. Ted Cruz have suggested a ...
According to a 2017 analysis of 2,650 schools published in the Washington University Law Review, students at schools with police officers were significantly more likely to be reported to law enforcement for low-level offenses than students at schools without police, even after controlling for the neighborhood crime rate, the demographics of the ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Broward Schools may overhaul the way it runs its school police program, creating its own force of sworn officers rather than outsourcing to local law enforcement agencies.
Michigan State Police, Ypsilanti Post. The Ypsilanti Post was merged into the Brighton Post in 2011. The Michigan State Police (MSP) is a full-service law enforcement agency, with approximately 3,000 employees who provide over 60 different services either directly to Michigan residents or in support of other law enforcement agencies.