The usage of police officer's in secondary schools causes both a negative and positive impact on the student welfare. In relation to students' academic performance levels and social life, police officers are aimed to maintain a safe and secure school environment. However, this is not the case when it comes to analyzing and comparing the effects of police officer's presence in both Toronto and Peel secondary schools. The article entitled, “Students benefit from police in schools, Peel study finds” published by the Toronto Star suggests a debate if police officers are beneficial to students. To further consider the possibilities of how the research conducted in the study provides an adequate amount of information, I will thoroughly analyze the conclusion and premises present in the argument. Being concerned with a sufficient amount of evidence that backs up the claims made in the premises helps to indicate the conclusion. According to David Kelly, “Conclusion is defined as, a proposition whose truth an argument seeks to establish”. (Kelly, 97) The conclusion in this news article is that the school Resource Officer (SRO) program has a negative effect on the lives of marginalized youth in Toronto schools, whereas in Peel schools there is a positive impact on the lives of students. As a result, the School Resource Officer (SRO) program should be abolished due to an unfair bias. The conclusion can be viewed numerous times throughout the article in which commonly found words of
The use of police in schools has been on the increase since the shootings at Columbine High school in 1999. However, over the last 10-12 years the increase is due mainly to available government funding. These “Special Police” are now called “School Resource Officers” (SROs). While the proponents of the SRO program believe that the presence of a Police officer represents all that is right and moral and what our children should aspire to be.
Every day, law enforcement officers encounter danger while carrying out their duties. The foremost duty of law enforcement officers are to serve and protect citizens. Most law enforcement agencies do this successfully. However, many people view law enforcement officers as the enemy. People need to be better informed about law enforcement and why officers take specific actions in certain circumstances. In our society, police are in a very dangerous position when it comes to the amount of force they can use when dealing with an individual. Officers use discretion when deciding the best course of action for the situation, whether it be physical force, persuasion, or coercion. They must take the correct course of action, because if they are too lenient or to forceful, even when dealing with petty things, they can be reprimanded by superiors and the public. Should police use force? Which circumstances warrant use force and what are the limits of force they can use? These questions are often asked when police are compelled to use force.
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
Lack of training and policing standards are closely linked to the myriad problems bedeviling police work, especially in small departments (Brodeur, 2010). All over the country, police departments report cases of officers being caught in uncompromising and unprofessional situations, resulting in disciplinary actions such as redeployment, suspension or sacking. These cases of unprofessionalism have led to questions being asked about policing, occasioned by recurring series of questionable and controversial encounters with police officers (Brodeur, 2010). The consequence of such encounters is increasing public distrust in law enforcement agencies.
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.
The article is considered creditable considering the evidence that was provided was done through several references. There was also the article that was provided through the Justice Policy Institute titles “Education under Arrest: the Case against Police in Schools”, the article discusses the alternate ways to alter the behaviors of delinquent Juveniles exhibited other than having SRO officers in the school. There were several examples that were prepared to show the reasoning behind the conclusion of why SRO officers do not make improvements but cause further stress among the students causing bad behavior to be at an increase rate. The creditability of this article was questioned but with further investigations it was seen to have accurate
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.
Each year citizens die in encounters with law enforcement officers. It is reported that “Americans are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist” (Rucke, 2013). Although there is no official data base tracking these occurrences it is estimated that between 500 and a 1,000 people are killed by police officers each year. To put this in greater perspective this number equals approximately 5,000 since the 9/11 terror attack which is roughly the same number as U.S. soldiers who have been killed in the line of duty in Iraq (Rucke, 2013). This statistic is justifiably concerning. The cause of police related killings are multifold and cannot be attributed to only one factor. Many deaths may be unavoidable and perhaps, dependent on the situation, necessary. I contend, however, that many of these deaths may very well be preventable.
The current School Resource Officer (SRO) for the Graham Police Department (GPD), assigned to the Graham Independent School District (GISD), will soon be retiring and the GPD and the GISD need to determine if the SRO program shall continue. This literature review is to show that a research study, to examine the impact of the SRO program in the Graham ISD and if the program is worthy of continuation, is needed. To make this determination the study needs to look at the interactions between students and the school resource officer and attempt to determine the students’ and the communities’ feelings about the SRO program and their sense of school safety. The current researches about SRO programs are either to broad with mixed results or inadequate to make a determination for a single small independent school district. By completing a study on a small independent school district it may show that more concentrated studies of SRO programs are needed to determine the true need of the SRO program in each individual ISD and community.
With the express purpose of reducing crime rates and educating students, armed police have been allocated to NSW high schools to organize crime prevention workshops in terms of shoplifting, offensive behavior, graffiti and drugs and alcohol or to have strong links with schoolchildren; however, they are also faced with many difficulties such as the use of fake ID or a variety of negative community
Police officers nowadas are being portrayed as the opposite of their job description and it has been in the media’s attention that police officers in general have been abusing their power in non-violent situations whether it be in a small town or a big city, but today the news is now covering incidents of police brutality within the elementary through high school levels. Nowadays, there are children growing up that are becoming exceptionally defiant and difficult to control in the learning environments. This lead to the point that not even their parents could do anything about. Are Student Resource Officers, “SRO’s”,abusing their power and using them incorrectly? The SRO’s should be used to control any violence and drug use, not to intervene with a situation that a teacher is capable of handling.
Synopsis: This article talks about a fight involving about 50 students leaving Asbury Park High School last week that caused damage to nearby property has prompted police to increase patrols at dismissal time. The police in the area have seen an increase in complaints from neighbors about unruly high-school aged children jaywalking, obstructing traffic and being disorderly. This dispute raises questions from parents and neighbors about the safety of children, property that has been damaged and why these students are acting out. The population has been said to have been through so much trauma
A study done by researchers Durkin and Jefferey (2000), proved that, just like adults, children see the power of the police uniform too. The researchers showed three illustrated scenarios to aboriginal children aged from five to nine and asked who had the power to make an arrest using these scenarios. The first illustration had a police officer out of uniform, the second picture showed the officer in the uniform, and the third picture had a man who was not a police officer, wearing the uniform. The results were quite interesting, since the children who got it wrong, chose the third illustration, suggesting that children really do see the power within the uniform. When it comes to stereotypes and biases regarding the police, the children are more susceptible to the influences from their parents, which suffered chronic inequality and injustices because of the police.
During the Policing in Schools open panel discussion Muhiyaddin D’Baha from BlackLivesMatter touched on a point that stuck with me throughout the discussion. He talked about a record school gives children and how the schools judge them on that before they even meet the kid or try to understand why they are this way. The child who has this record gets used to being called a troublemaker, delinquent etc. When the child switches schools the record stays with them. That school then does the same thing that the teachers and authorities did at the other school. They judge that child for what his record says. Many act upon this. Eventually this record that the school has given them turns into a criminal record that sticks with them forever. My brother
We see a close up on red heels before we see the full view of the girl wearing them (Audrey). A classroom full of students sits in their desks, looking in various directions, while the teacher is at the front of the room, taking roll. She calls upon a few students who respond, informing her they are present. A cop is seen standing in the doorway. He asks about a boy named Bobby Briggs. The teacher thinks he is in a different room, Donna confirms this with a nod. The cop then asks to speak to the teacher. She agrees, when suddenly a screaming girl is seen running outside the window. Another cop comes in and both cops leave. Some of the students and the teacher suddenly appear distraught as an empty chair comes into focus. James and donna exchange