Persuasive Essay On Police Brutality

School security is one of the world’s biggest issues. In California not many schools have security for their schools and that raises many questions for parents and teachers. All parents want their children to be safe and they don’t want anything bad to happen to them. They don’t know what might happen to them when they go to school. Some schools don’t have security systems because they don’t have government support to afford security for their school. Parents think twice before sending their kids to school with no security because of the crime that’s been happening lately. Department of Education should know that when kids are at school it’s their responsibility to protect kids from any crime. The main problem is the crime that is happening

The School Resource officer program provides the use of trained full-time Police Officers who will work within the educational system. The objectives of the School Recourse Officer Program is to promote and assist schools in providing a safe learning environment which will also improve relationships between law enforcement and the youth of today. The program attempts to promote a better understanding of the Law Enforcement Officers' role in society while educating students, parents, school personnel, and the community on important issues such as gangs, violent crime, drugs, and other related topics. The program also provides a positive role model in the educational system. The Primary focus of this program is

Some argue that having armed officers can be intimidating to students. Also that they can create a tense environment. That they may also abuse their authority. Students must be made aware of why the officers are present. Although it can be scary to a student to see an armed officer patrolling the halls but with proper training of officers to be in a school environment students will feel safe. Students as well as faculty and staff should also be well informed as to the duties of the officers so that there is an understating of an armed officers purpose in a school.

In a recent article from US News, they ask a question that is stirring much debate nationwide, whether school resource officers (SRO’s) are doing more harm than good. The rate of children becoming involved in the Juvenile Justice system through SRO’s is alarming. “In theory, so called school resource officers are supposed to foster exactly what many civil right groups are campaigning for: better relations between law enforcement and citizens, particularly minorities and lower-income families” (Sneed, 2015). The word resource originated from Old French meaning to rise again and in Latin a resurrection. Today’s meaning of resource can be defined as a source of support or something that enhances the quality of human life (Merriam-Webster, 2015). When considering what the title of SRO stands for, children should be given more options and assistance rather than fear based compliance tactics traditionally used on adult criminals. I feel we are almost telling kids well we can’t put you all in jail, so we will bring the jail to your school. How could a cop in a school be non-threatening? Children see a bullet proof vest, Taser, gun, handcuffs, pepper spray and I really doubt they are thinking this person is there to help them.

While researching School Resource officers or law enforcement officers in schools it has been discovered that the research is on the effectiveness of SRO’s is mixed or limited on keeping schools safe (Justice Policy Institute, 2011). There has also been research that was conducted in the last few years that concluded that the safety of schools can be improved without the help of SRO’s and or Law Enforcement’s approach on discipline (Justice Policy Institute, 2011). While reviewing the research of Dewey Correll at the University of Virginia , he suggested that when using highly structured and defined rules that are created to be strict and fairly enforced, while having the support of adults, SRO’s are not necessary

Schools around the nation are contracting polices officer to patrol their schools and students. Police officers are known as School Resource Officer’s (SRO’s) like if given them a different name would matter, instead of being resourceful they are up holding the law in harsh ways. There are many SRO’s in schools and this has led to high number of arrests and criminal charges, instead of keeping a safer environment for the children it is becoming a hunting ground (Schept, Wall, & Brisman). Before when a child did something wrong they were given detention, standards, a parent-meeting or maybe even sent to the office, but now the student are sent to the police officer in their schools. Once they are sent to her/him they are punish in such a different way where they can be expelled, suspense or even taken to jail.

In Addition, some officers are not taking their job seriously because they are not trained properly. Some officers do not care about the well being student and just want their check. To clarify this point Lisa Thurau says, “ officers who don't really want to do anything.” These are the type of officers that schools should avoid in order to make this program work. These officers misleading students instead of mentoring and helping the students. On the other hand a law passed in Denver in 2012 mentions that the training for schools officers will be more intense. Although this law passed there has not been good officers at school. With the right officers, the officers can mentor the student and guide them in the right direction. Not only can they menor student but get them to understand that school is more important than anything. Perhaps with the right training officers will make a change. Unfortunately, that is not happening and schools are hiring

School resource officers are a great contact for youth, who can interact with students daily. These officers can develop a trusting relationship that allows the students to have someone to speak with that is not seen as part of the school staff or a teacher. As sworn law enforcement officers, the resource officers are responsible for the safety of those at the school and the property of the school. Resource officers that openly carry a firearm give a visual deterrent to anyone who thinks about bringing a firearm to the school for harm. When a potential shooter sees that there are officers carrying firearms at the school, the potential shooter may consider that bringing a firearm to the school would not produce the results the potential shooter

b) SRJC has over 36,000 students, faculty, and staff. How are the 13 sworn police officers supposed to protect all 36,000 individuals that attend or work for the JC? Transition: Now that we examined that response times for attacks on school campus are not the very best we can move on to reliability on others for protection. II.

This article written by Alex S. Vitale discusses the need for a decrease of reliance in policing and an increase for greater community services. Vitale believes that in order to solve the problem of police misconduct, communities must first resolve their own neighborhood disorders. He believes that police should be removed from school districts. Vitale backs up his statement with studies that show juvenile students worsen the safety of the school and eventually become associated with much more serious crimes. Enlightening role models can enhance school safety, which then eliminates the problem of juvenile activity within school districts, resulting in the unnecessary need for police and reducing the misconduct that often takes place. Vitale

At a High School in South Carolina a student was to be removed from the classroom they were in for misbehaving so the resource officer was called in to escort the student out but instead flips the student back in the desk and proceeded to drag the student out of the desk as if they were a rag doll and better yet the officer wasn’t even charged for what’s he’d done. This is Police brutality and I am strongly against it. I fell like some police or those with authority think they rule the world or something or that they are the law and decide to take matters into their own hands anyway they want, even if that involves unnecessary acts of violence. The student being handled like a rag doll was one of many of the examples of police brutality almost

Police agencies have been providing services to schools for a while now. However, it has only been in the past two decades, that assigning officers to schools as a full-time job has become a widespread thing. An estimated one-third of all sheriffs' offices and almost half of all urban police departments assign nearly 17,000 sworn officers to serve in schools. Likewise, nearly half of all public schools have assigned police officers. These officers are commonly referred to as school resource officers (SROs) or education resource officers. They are supposed to serve various roles such as safety expert and law enforcer, problem solver and mediator to community resources, and educator.

These police officers will be train to watch out the surroundings of the school so that if they spot any activity of offences they will certainly catch them. These children will not dare to do anything involves crime that can make them be caught. Furthermore, teachers will also participate in making their students a better person. Teachers can show them that how dangerous it is to be involve in juvenile delinquency, what are the punishments if they get themselves involve in such things and influence them to always obey to what their parents told them to do. Moreover, stay away from any kind of activity that involves crime in

In the criminal justice system, you are trying to teach people how to act accordingly and this is obviously preached in schools. Criminal Justice Officers tell people what they can and can not do just like teachers. If someone breaks a rule(s) than they will go through the chain of command for either a school or a Criminal Justice Organization. The school also has a school board and school board meetings that the town members can attend. This is where problems are addressed to the public and then the public votes on them. The school also interacts with more state wide departments like the Maine and US Department of Education. The Maine Department of Education Mission is “to provide leadership and to collaborate with educators and learning communities in order to ensure that every learner has the opportunity to be successful”. This means that they meet with each other every so often in order to change or improve learning and assessments. Another mission it has is to engage and challenge each student in a way that adapts to each students learning habits. One final organization is RSU4. This is pretty much a meeting place for all of the schools in the area to meet and discuss certain topics. They expect students to “achieve academic standards by providing a variety of educational and co-/extra-curricular opportunities that are equitable and engaging while addressing diverse

The issue of every elementary school in California having an armed police guard on campus is important because there has been many incidents in the past with school shootings and other horrible events. Without officers in elementary schools, the kids that attend that school would not be nearly as safe as if they were with an officer. This issue is debatable because while some believe that the officer will be an advantage to the school’s safety, others believe that the officer could be a disadvantage because the kids could be frightened or not trust the officer.