Syracuse Hires Ex-Attorney General to Investigate Its Police Department
Students have criticized the school’s police department for its response to student sit-ins and protests following dozens of racist incidents.
Students have criticized the school’s police department for its response to student sit-ins and protests following dozens of racist incidents.
The new requirement adds to a 2019 state law, which called for school resource officers in nearly each of its 1,500 public schools.
The decision was made after the Michigan school conducted a two-year feasibility study following a shooting inside a dorm room.
Jason Washington was shot nine times by two Portland State police officers who were later cleared of wrongdoing by a grand jury.
The accidental shootings involved both law enforcement officers and armed teachers and the injured included officers, staff and students.
In one of the incidents, a school resource officer at Oshkosh West High School was stabbed in his office by a student following an altercation.
The firm hired to train armed security for Palm Beach County charter schools was passing students who failed shooting tests, among other things.
After a man used an officer’s taser and injured a nurse, the hospital is now considering employing police officers who can carry weapons.
Since the Parkland shooting, the state of New Jersey has been working to increase school security by adding more armed SROs.
Faculty members at Johns Hopkins University wrote a letter voicing concerns about the negative effects of an armed police force on campus.
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