trajedy as well as other recent shootings. Resmovits states that even for schools that educate the youngest Americans. The awnser is to arm up. The recent focus has been elementary schools. Mostly because of shootings like Sandy Hook like I mentioned earlier. The News-Heralds Jean Bonchak, has a very interesting article about cops in schools. “Police departments, schools seeing benefits of school recource officers”. In this article I found something very interesting. Bonchak interviews a police officer named Chris Ivanovics. In this interview he makes an interesting point. Not only is Ivanovics there for school safety, he is also there to deal with important student issues. He says that getting to know these students helps create a personal
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When I say this I need things such as student disobedience, as well as student fights. According to Kevin Quinn of CNN, police officers are first responders for any and all critical incidents on campus. Whether it's an intruder, a student fight, or health emergency these police officers can save minutes of precious time when it counts the most. It is good to have a cop on campus one is even quoted saying, “I know the school like the back of my hand and if there's a problem I don't need a map I can respond in the time it takes for me to get down the hall”. Personally I think this is a really good thing. I think that it can definitely help with the reputation of the school, because the threat, or the people who are making a scene can be removed very quickly and everyone else is out of harms way because the police officer took care of the issue quickly and efficiently. Quinn also shows a positive side to student resource officers like I mentioned before. These police officers develop a personal relationship with students. Quinn states that many parents have gone up to him and thank him for dealing with their kids. He even had one kid come up to them after graduation and he thanked him, and was quoted,” saying thank you Officer Quinn, I wouldn't be here without you”. To me that really goes to show you how much of a personal relationship the kids can develop with these people and I personally think that is a really good
When I say this I need things such as student disobedience, as well as student fights. According to Kevin Quinn of CNN, police officers are first responders for any and all critical incidents on campus. Whether it's an intruder, a student fight, or health emergency these police officers can save minutes of precious time when it counts the most. It is good to have a cop on campus one is even quoted saying, “I know the school like the back of my hand and if there's a problem I don't need a map I can respond in the time it takes for me to get down the hall”. Personally I think this is a really good thing. I think that it can definitely help with the reputation of the school, because the threat, or the people who are making a scene can be removed very quickly and everyone else is out of harms way because the police officer took care of the issue quickly and efficiently. Quinn also shows a positive side to student resource officers like I mentioned before. These police officers develop a personal relationship with students. Quinn states that many parents have gone up to him and thank him for dealing with their kids. He even had one kid come up to them after graduation and he thanked him, and was quoted,” saying thank you Officer Quinn, I wouldn't be here without you”. To me that really goes to show you how much of a personal relationship the kids can develop with these people and I personally think that is a really good