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Title: The US schools with their own police | World news | The Guardian
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: xerxes
Date: 2012-01-09 20:07:59

[andyt]

More signs of the apocalypse

[jeff744]

This basically sums it all up

$1:

Because of Sarah Bustamentes's mental disorders, a disability rights group took up her case and after months of legal battles prosecutors dropped the charges. Ask her how she feels about police in schools after her experience and she's equivocal.

"We need police in school. In my school it can get physical and it can turn out very bad," she says. "But they should stop issuing tickets. Only for physical stuff or bullying. Not what you do in class."

[saturn_656]

The school system in Texas is seriously screwed up. Elementary schools with their own cops? WTF...

[andyt]

I think we're slowly going down that road too. I believe we have the cops at schools way more than when I was a kid, cop liaisons and such. I think in TO they already have cops patrolling some schools. As our society degrades further, with increasing income inquality, we'll be seeing more and more of this as well, would be my guess.

[jeff744]

andyt andyt:

I think we're slowly going down that road too. I believe we have the cops at schools way more than when I was a kid, cop liaisons and such. I think in TO they already have cops patrolling some schools. As our society degrades further, with increasing income inquality, we'll be seeing more and more of this as well, would be my guess.

Income has nothing to do with it, it is parents trying to protect their kids from everything, they have also made it impossible for teachers to discipline kids, some parents even give their 6yo Ritalin.

[Thanos]

These things happen because Americans like to hire carrion-eating lawyers who sue other kids' parents and the schools for multi-millions when schoolyard scuffles happen or when some other kid gets hit in the eye with a paper airplane. Cost of lawsuits = millions. Cost of a few cops for the schools = a lot less. Simple math and economics really.

Get rid of the ability for predatory lawyers to file endless bogus lawsuits in the US and life will improve immeasurably for practically everyone in that country.

[uwish]

simply part of the developing police state in the US, and I would agree I believe we are taking the first steps to such a police state as well.

[saturn_656]

It's one thing to have the local police pay visits to the school on a regular basis. Entirely another for the school to have its own uniformed and armed peace officers.

[andyt]

Yes it is. But don't be too smug - those schools didn't start out with on site cops either.

[Regina]

When my nephew played in the OHL he went to a US high school (during the playing season) that had it's own police station on site. He thought it was odd at first but had no problems with them at all. Most people understood that they were only there to protect them from outsiders coming onto their campus and starting trouble or bringing drugs.

[Unsound]

When I was in high school in the 90s most of the high schools in town had a "school resource officer". An actual police officer who had an office in the school. I can't remember if it was a full time thing or just a few days a week that he was there. Basically he was there to watch for troublemakers from out side and to answer questions and advise students. Constable Christiansen was a good guy. And as far as i remember even when I was in jumior high there was a cop who split his time between a few different schools.

[sandorski]

Texas student Phone Cam

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[jeff744]

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

Lol, capitalist America...

Good luck with that... thing... you've got going on there... Looks really, uh, progressive and democratic...

Ummm...what does this have to do with capitalism? Last I checked stupidity wasn't something specific to it.