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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 ...
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 ...
The school district in Minneapolis, the city where George Floyd died, has already voted to terminate its contract with the local police department. Do we need police in schools? The debate over ...
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.
In 1995, 9.8% of sworn police officers were women. [27] This number grew in the next decade; in 2005 female police officers made up 11.2% of all sworn police officers. [28] One decade later, the number of policewomen has grown little, from 11.2% in 2005 to 11.9% in 2014. [29]
The Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) is a law enforcement agency in Los Angeles, California, whose duties are to provide police services to the Los Angeles Unified School District (thus, sometimes called L.A. Unified Police), also enforcing state and city laws. LASPD officers assist staff with disturbances and potential criminal ...
L.A. Unified Supt. Alberto Carvalho, right, meets with school police officers at Crenshaw High School after a campus fight in 2022. A district plan this week to return officers to 20 campuses ...