In the article, Are School Police Effective?, people are starting to wonder if their kids are just receiving punishments rather than actual help, mostly minority children. Sheri Bauman, an education professor from the University of Arizona, commented “There’s such a widespread belief that [SROs] make kids safer, yet we don’t really know that. ... We need to have some scientific analyses that answer those questions.” However, “L.A. Schools Police Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Julie Spry could provide no data attesting to the force’s effectiveness.” All the police violence isn’t only impacting the adults, either. Children are seeing, and in some cases, experiencing police being more forceful than need be. In 2013, “police officers broke into Charlene and Samuel Holly’s Roseland home and held the couple and six of their grandchildren at gunpoint for more than half an hour.” No one was hurt or arrested, but the children will most likely never be the same after that experience. Most would just say that the police are doing their jobs. According to the Huffingtonpost article, if a cop deems a situation threatening, they have the right to use force or shoot. “Officers are often forced to make a split-second decision and are trained to try and deescalate the situation before firing.” If unnecessary force is used, that was just the reaction of how the officer viewed that
In the article, Are School Police Effective?, people are starting to wonder if their kids are just receiving punishments rather than actual help, mostly minority children. Sheri Bauman, an education professor from the University of Arizona, commented “There’s such a widespread belief that [SROs] make kids safer, yet we don’t really know that. ... We need to have some scientific analyses that answer those questions.” However, “L.A. Schools Police Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Julie Spry could provide no data attesting to the force’s effectiveness.” All the police violence isn’t only impacting the adults, either. Children are seeing, and in some cases, experiencing police being more forceful than need be. In 2013, “police officers broke into Charlene and Samuel Holly’s Roseland home and held the couple and six of their grandchildren at gunpoint for more than half an hour.” No one was hurt or arrested, but the children will most likely never be the same after that experience. Most would just say that the police are doing their jobs. According to the Huffingtonpost article, if a cop deems a situation threatening, they have the right to use force or shoot. “Officers are often forced to make a split-second decision and are trained to try and deescalate the situation before firing.” If unnecessary force is used, that was just the reaction of how the officer viewed that