Police agencies have long provided services to schools. It has only been in the past two decades, however, that assigning police officers on a full-time basis has become a widespread practice. Police officers should be present in schools because police will do everything possible to prevent the use of drugs, gangs, and weapons. Also . Finally officers watch for crime and vandalism. To begin, police should be present in schools because police would prevent the use of drugs, gangs, and weapons. According to Sarah Bellum “more than forty-six thousand teens have done drugs in the past year”(1) A lot of teens do drugs because of other people, popular media, escape and self-medication, boredom, rebellion, lack of confidence, and misinformation.
