Resource officers are sworn law enforcement officers with the authority to make arrests and carry a weapon in schools.
According to RT:
The US Department of Justice has pledged $44mn in grants to provide 356 school resource officers to 141 cities and counties nationwide in what it calls an effort to make schools safer following events like the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting in December.
Grants intended to fund more police officers in schools will go to law enforcement agencies across the country, the Justice Department (DOJ) said Friday as it unveiled the entire list of recipients.
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“Not only do they deter crime, but they provide opportunities for positive relations between students and law enforcement,” Karen Servas, a Modesto City School District grant writer who worked with the city police department to appeal for funding, told McClatchy.
... positive relations between students and law enforcement... let's take a better look at that idea with some recent interactions between students and "resources officers".
According to TechDirt:
The theft of a dollar shouldn’t have warranted much more than a visit to the principal’s office, if that. But, because of these policies, the school automatically turned it over to a state trooper, who then interrogated two children, presumably attempting to get the 8-year-old to testify against the fifth-grader. Unfortunately, incidents like these are far from rare.
- A water balloon fight towards the end of the school year results in seven students arrested.
- A high school student who changed another student’s last name to something inappropriate in the school yearbook is arrested and facing first degree property damage charges, a felony.
- A 14-year-old student is arrested on two charges of “disrupting the educational process” and one count of “obstructing an officer” after wearing an NRA shirt to class — something that did not violate the school dress code, which bans “depictions of violence” but not guns.
- In Mississippi, kids have been arrested (and incarcerated) for “dress code violations, flatulence, profanity and disrespect.”
- In Stockton, CA, a 5-year-old with ADHD had his hands and feet zip-tied by the on-duty officer while he waited for the parents to show up. The child was then charged with “battery on a police officer.”
- A cop who was not on duty at a Washington, DC school gave a 10-year-old student a concussion when he “grabbed the back of [the student's] head and slammed his head forward into the table.” The student had been sent to the cafeteria for not participating in music class.
- A diabetic student who fell asleep in class claims the school police officer slammed her face into a filing cabinet before arresting her and taking her to jail.
So these students sure are taking part in relations with these officers, just not very pleasant ones. School children are being indoctrinated to believe that police officers should be everywhere to protect from anything. That the only way to keep safe is to allow a thug in a costume to walk around the building with a gun.
If some crazed lunatic wants to shoot up a school, one or two resource officers may help, or they may end up victims as well. There is never any guarantee that just because a "good" guy with a gun is in the building that a "bad" guy that enters would be stopped by them.
If you want to live in reality, with the very small chance of any given school actually being victim of a mass shooting, these officers are in place to victimize students, to get them ready for the police state that they are surely growing up to inherit.
The RT article linked up top goes in to greater detail by stating:
The RT article linked up top goes in to greater detail by stating:
The “school-to-prison pipeline” operates directly and indirectly, the ACLU writes in its research on punitive school discipline.
“Directly, schools send their students into the Pipeline through zero tolerance policies, and involving the police in minor discipline incidents. All too often school rules are enforced through metal detectors, pat-downs and frisks, arrests, and referrals to the juvenile justice system. And schools pressured to raise graduation and testing numbers can sometimes artificially achieve this by pushing out low-performing students into GED programs and the juvenile justice system.
“Indirectly, schools push students towards the criminal justice system by excluding them from the learning environment and isolating them from their peer groups through suspension, expulsion, ineffective retention policies, transfers, and high-stakes testing requirements.”
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The National Association of School Resource Officers says there are more than 10,000 resource officers in the US, and that school-based policing is the fastest growing area of law enforcement in the nation.
I'll translate that last line in to what it really means, Cha-Ching. The fastest growing area of law enforcement is making someone, somewhere alot of money. They could care less about keeping kids safe, just like the private prison system could care less about rehabilitating inmates. It's all about controlling the masses and taking their resources.
Indoctrinate the kids and steal their parents money through an abusive and illegal taxation system. How best to do that then to convince them that they need to add police officers to local schools? Taxes will go up, kids will be treated like inmates and psychopaths will find another gun free zone to go on their rampage. Or if they are that crazy, a resource officer is not going to stop them from committing their atrocity.
Indoctrinate the kids and steal their parents money through an abusive and illegal taxation system. How best to do that then to convince them that they need to add police officers to local schools? Taxes will go up, kids will be treated like inmates and psychopaths will find another gun free zone to go on their rampage. Or if they are that crazy, a resource officer is not going to stop them from committing their atrocity.
