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What's the one thing Judge Dredd would never, ever do?
I have no idea.
What's the one thing Judge Dredd would never, ever do?
Just the other day I heard on a radio program that there are around 17,000 police officers in K-12 schools in this country. I have no idea how many K-12 schools there are.
Patrolling, yes. There are some fun videos of grown men with guns throwing 14-year-old girls to the ground around the web, if you're into that sort of thing. A school district in California got a dozen assault rifles and one of those armored vehicles from the Dept of Defense a few years ago. They also got 3 grenade launchers, but they decided those were too much and returned them.Doing what? Outreach? Patrolling the halls?
17,000 police officers doing outreach seems like overkill. But police officers patrolling elementary schools seems.. insane
Giving students high-fives is an improvement then.
I'm pretty happy my sister and her husband just moved back to Canada from the U.S. No way would I want her future kids to grow up in a place where police regularly patrol elementary schools.
Coming soon to a Canadian school near you:
http://www.nwpolice.org/community-services/school-liaison-officers/
Even a big city like Milwaukee has only 1 officer for the middle schools and 1 officer for the high schools. All this talk of 'patrolling elementary schools' is overblown.
School Liaison Offers also educate youth on safety issues, foster positive relationships between youth and police, increase awareness among youth of their responsibility to the community, and provide them with the knowledge and confidence needed to make safe and responsible choices.
Kindergarten to Grade 3: Stranger danger, general safety awareness, teasing and personal safety.
Grade 4 to Grade 6: Internet safety, social media awareness and bullying.
Grade 7 to Grade 10: Social media awareness, internet safety, bullying, drug education.
Grade 11 to Grade 12: Social media awareness, internet safety, bullying, drinking and driving, drug education, and dating violence.
Bamspeedy, reading that link it sounds like the cop is in the school as an "ambassador" of sorts. It doesn't mention patrols, but I suppose that does not mean they are excluded.
Some 43% of all U.S. public schools -- including 63% of middle and 64% of high schools -- had such officers on their grounds during the 2013-2014 school year, the National Center for Education Statistics noted in May. This includes more than 46,000 full-time and 36,000 part-time officers.
When I was in highschool we had a security guard who we barely saw but that's about it. If I had kids and the school I was about to sign them up for had an on-duty police officer who's job it was to patrol the grounds, I would quickly start looking for a new school. To me that implies that the area is too dangerous for my kids.
An "ambassador" could just be a guy who does presentations for kids and teaches them stuff. Which I don't mind. But if patrolling duties are involved, it would also make me question sending my kids there.
I have no idea.
(Note this article was 14 years ago). He does patrol the hallways. Catching kids smoking and skipping classes, are you worried for your kid's safety for that? Sometimes breaks up fights amongst students, and confiscated knives (and a BB gun).
I think the newer constructed K-5 building has like locked doors and buzzer access and stuff now. The high school and middle schools are still probably open access/unguarded. Confiscating knives though! I guess that makes sense, but the entire FFA chapter would have lost a pocketknife if you started asking them for them.