Schools in the US often have a police officer on campus known as an SRO — a School Resource Officer. They’re about as useful as you’d expect from American police.
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PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
Schools in the US call the police for schoolyard fights?
That’s crazy
elbiter@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
They call the police for everything. It’s the only public service they have left…
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
*Public disservice
stressballs@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Don’t you think it’s wise to educate children on what it’s like to be incarcerated? Those camps weren’t build just to house immigrants.
raimundojcc@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
They only call the police for fist fights. If it’s a true fight, a gun one, they call CSI.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
they’ll do a whole lock down and give ther kids ptsd for it too.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
the school police (SRO, formerly truancy officer) also try to stop you from ditching. i used to bribe mine with egg rolls.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Schools in the US have officers specifically assigned to the school. Like the officer’s full time job is to patrol the halls. They’re called School Resource Officers, and they are a large part of the prison pipeline, as their entire job is focused on getting kids into the prison system. Kids get arrested for things that could be (and previously were) handled by school discipline instead. But since school admins don’t want to deal with it, (because it would require actually making decisions on a case-by-case basis), it’s easier for them to just default to having a kid carted off to juvie by the SRO.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Is that…true? I mean this sounds so absurd and surreal. The thought of a school(!) Having their own “police” is bizzare enough already…
Please tell me you just pulled that outta your rear, for lolz or something.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 minutes ago
I wish it were made up.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 26 minutes ago
They were originally hired to stop school shootings. Hard to count the ones that didn’t happened because a kid decided not to do it cause them. But they’re have never stopped one that is happening.