Do Cops in Schools Do More Harm Than Good? [Time.com]

Samantha Sangenito 11/2/154:00 AM

The violent arrest of a South Carolina student shines a spotlight on school resource officers

The school resource officer whose violent arrest of a South Carolina student this week sparked a Justice Department investigation has drawn fresh scrutiny of the tens of thousands of police increasingly present in U.S. public schools.

The role of school resource officers (SROs), sworn law enforcement agents that help provide school security, is being re-examined after a video surfaced showing Ben Fields, a white officer at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., arresting a black 16-year-old after flipping the student out of her chair and dragging her across the floor. Fields, a Richland County senior deputy who spent seven years as an SRO, has since been fired, and the Department of Justice is considering whether the arrest violated civil rights laws.

[For more of this story, written by Josh Sanburn, go to http://time.com/4093517/south-...l-police-ben-fields/]

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YES!!!

I would never approach a police officer for anything.

There may be some good police officers but I have no idea who they are anymore.

11/2/155:31 AM

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