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School Police: Good Idea? Bad Idea?

09/02/10
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Bringing police into public schools is a trend that exploded in the 1990s, after high-profile school shooting incidents at Columbine and Jonesboro. When a reader asked a question about school resource officers,  we realized how little we knew about these officers. Are school resource officers law enforcement officers? Disciplinarians? Counselors or educators? Let’s take a […]

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