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L.A. school board members say they did not know in advance of a police deployment to 20 troubled campuses -- and some are unhappy about it.
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 ...
California is the latest state moving to stop police officers who have committed serious misconduct from working for other agencies. Twenty police officers in California face possible ...
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) had spent a decade sending undercover officers into schools, arresting thousands of dealers—the majority of them minors—but drug use among students ...
A 13-year-old boy entered the Roosevelt Elementary School wearing a backpack and carrying a duffel bag before being arrested and later charged by police officers. At the suspect's home, police found a replica rifle that he filmed a video with and several airsoft pistols. [114] [115] December 19, 2024 Florencio Varela, Argentina
On July 24, 2006, Bryan filed suit against Officer MacPherson, the Coronado Police Department, its police chief, and the City of Coronado for excessive force in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, a violation of California Civil code § 52.1, as well as failure to train and related ...
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.
[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".