I don't get all the resistance to putting a cop in schools

[ancianita]

115. It's a practical solution, a preventive one in Chicago. One officer and security guards are in all

high schools, and have been for the last twenty years. Metal detectors are in mandatory use at the main entrances of all high schools, where students' book bags go through scanners. Students and teachers wear ID's at all times. I've seen security guards in middle schools and elementary schools. The Board of Ed pays for security guards, and the city pays through the Chicago Police Dept. budget. It's just seen as part of neighborhood policing.

The stats as of my last year in a Chicago high school, five years ago, were that there have been no injuries or deaths by guns inside high schools. The CPD does its usual car patrols through all school neighborhoods, and there is backup if any is needed. I was in a college prep high school with plenty of tough kids, and none of them felt in danger inside the school. Corporate media reports of murders around schools have tried to imply that they happened in the schools, but Chicagoans know the stats and that Chicago kids are safe within their schools. It's out in the world that they are vulnerable, which is why many stay for after school sports and other programs.

I honestly don't see how the public doesn't buy into the idea that it gets what it pays for. It's the cost of raising children.