Why the hell would you put police officers in schools?
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You must not have grown up in the US. Schools have cops here so they can protect kids from dangerous things like naked selfies.
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So I googled this. It's been around for 60 years? How have I not heard of this before?
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Became super common in the 1990s after the Columbine shootings.
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Yes–& here's the irony: Columbine had an armed cop who was useless during massacre; school then refused–wisely–to install metal detectors
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But working-class urban schools, mostly Black & Latino, didn't have the political/social clout to push back against new security crackdown
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Annette Fuentes' Lockdown High (
@VersoBooks) is excellent primer; here's my overview: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175654/
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unrelated that website has a horrible phishing compo sort of phone pop up
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couldn't finish the article without getting interrupted
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I didn't notice it thanks to ublock, but that shit is terrible. More like unreasonable dot com
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@Aknorals Moral panics take livesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I agree with you 100%!
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