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5 Ways Campus Police Officers and Traditional Police Officers Differ

3. Campus Police Focus on Prevention

“The goal is not for me to make a lot of arrests and write a lot of police reports,” says Kevin Quinn, president of the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO). “It’s prevention by dealing with kids, doing presentations in the classrooms, doing crime prevention, doing site surveys and assessments on campus. Your goal is to reduce or eliminate crime; not sit back and wait to catch kids doing bad things.”

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