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An investigation by the Detroit Free Press finds schools for students with disabilities bring in police more often than traditional district schools. Calls to cops show specialized schools in ...
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.
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 ...
[5] [25] The word cop is slang for police officer; the phrase is derived by analogy from contempt of court, which, unlike contempt of cop, is an offense in many jurisdictions (e.g., California Penal Code section 166, making contempt of court a misdemeanor). Similar to this is the phrase "disturbing the police", a play on "disturbing the peace".
Annotations for Wisconsin §968.24, however, state "The principles of Terry permit a state to require a suspect to disclose his or her name in the course of a Terry stop and allow imposing criminal penalties for failing to do so", citing Hiibel as authority. Hiibel held that statutes requiring suspects to disclose their names during police ...
The action aims to force the school board to comply with Act 12, a state law that since Jan. 1 has required 25 police officers to work inside Milwaukee schools. “Failing to provide SROs has left ...
Three Bellingham Public Schools administrators accused of failing to report a high school student’s sexual assaults have resolved their criminal cases.. The administrators — Jeremy Gilbert ...