The US schools with their own police

[dawp]

Are they like the Univ police? can they can be bitter and frustrated...

not uni police, city police. full police officers.

 

[dawp]

So. Our police got its own security guards as well. And any one can arrest a person and hand him over to the police. What you think securities do? They detain you and hand you over to the police wherever you get detained

They aren't security, They are full fledged police officers. In my girlfriends daughters case, from Ft. Worth. FT. Worth has FT. Worth cops on school campuses.

The bully that was picking on her just happened to be the daughter of a Ft. Worth police officer.

 

[cybrsage]

wasn't my daughter, it was my GFs daughter. And yes she did the ass kicking. From what I've been told, it had been going on for some time and she had enough and settled the score.

Then they were right for arresting her, since she started it. Glad she won the fight, that way she does not have to do it again.

 

[waggy]

yeap. they have city cops in the school a few days a week. Most will rotate them in from normal police work.

While i don't mind i think they need to relax on some of the bullshit. Arresting a 12 yr old girl for doodling on a desk? or arresting a child for not having a shirt tucked in?

sad that some schools actually need them.

 

[sm625]

Will someone think of the graves of founding fathers? They're spinning out of control!

They will be our new source of energy. Just plug wires into their graves and all that spinning should generate 14 terawatts. And we will have 150,000 bureaucrats regulating and monitoring the power flow.

 

[FuzzyBee]

Kids no longer respect their schools/property and the schools are not allowed to penalize/punish the kids for their actions.

As a consequence, some students will continue to push the limits on what then can get away with. Eventually, it escalates from a joke, to nuisance, prank, safety hazard, to a threat and beyond.

Why not? Kids today get away with anything they want to at home - why not try whatever they want at school?

 

[DesiPower]

Why not? Kids today get away with anything they want to at home - why not try whatever they want at school?

yeah, ass brained parents are the problem in the society. They want to blame the teachers and the school staff for everything and their children are never wrong. So basically the school staff cannot mind the children at all and as result they call in the police... I don't blame the school system but wish there was a better solution...

 

[shortylickens]

PSA:

The problem is NOT with the staff or even the government. Its with the parents who sue the school over every stupid little thing and dont raise their kids properly.

 

[FuzzyBee]

yeah, ass brained parents are the problem in the society. They want to blame the teachers and the school staff for everything and their children are never wrong. So basically the school staff cannot mind the children at all and as result they call in the police... I don't blame the school system but wish there was a better solution...

<back in the old days warning>

When I was in middle school, there were kids that acted up. If they disrupted class enough, they had their asses paddled. Given the option, I would have preferred to have been paddled at school as long as they *didn't* tell my parents. (Never had to exercise any option, BTW).

These days, the school administration wouldn't call the parents for fear of getting a tongue-lashing about how little Johnny couldn't have done anything wrong.

 

[waggy]

<back in the old days warning>

When I was in middle school, there were kids that acted up. If they disrupted class enough, they had their asses paddled. Given the option, I would have preferred to have been paddled at school as long as they *didn't* tell my parents. (Never had to exercise any option, BTW).

These days, the school administration wouldn't call the parents for fear of getting a tongue-lashing about how little Johnny couldn't have done anything wrong.

when i was in school if you acted up you got sent to the principal. punishment varied from writing lines to calling parents. I DID not want my parents called.

By the same token schools had the mentality of boys will be boys. so having a bigger kid beat the crap out of a smaller one was not punished. Tattling could get you in trouble.

 

[Wyndru]

We have an in-house police officer in the high school I work in. I feel bad for him, all he does is mediate facebook issues. He does get to look at a lot of hot young naked chicks' pictures though, because that's almost always the issues.

 

[akahoovy]

I've got a bad impression of Fort Worth anyway, and with all the incidents that have been reported about the schools in the last year or two, that impression is now that Fort Worth schools are a sh**hole.

Unless someone is brandishing a weapon, peddling drugs, or any other thing that presents a real danger to other students, no one should be getting arrested or fined. A $500 fine? Are you f***ing kidding me? I'd be fighting with school administrators.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

The reali irony here is the OP citing a UK news source to claim that Texas is a police state. Take a look at the UK for a police state.

This article may focus on Texas, but police in schools in a nation wide thing and is hardly a Texas thing.

 

[WackyDan]

My best friend is a school resource officer supplied by the local sheriffs department to the school. He is on site 5 days a week and still does road patrol and other duties.

Officers in schools are a direct result of a number of things...
- Columbine.
- The inability of teachers to discipline students that are trouble makers.
- The continued forced busing programs that bus inner city kids to rural schools that bring gang elements/behavior with them. ( Happens here in the South - NC here)

My buddy had to arrest a teacher a couple of years ago for a sexual relationship with a student... He said that the relationship would have potentially gone on longer or unnoticed altogether if he wasn't the resource officer. Students do not always trust teachers or principles with issues like that... Most trust a police officer.

So... There are good aspects and I'm sure bad aspects to this. I know that in my buddy's case, the students respect him, confide in him and trust him - which is something you should learn about 99.9% of police officers when you are young.