Tuesday, April 23, 2013

MORE POLICE IN SCHOOLS?!?

According to the article  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/criminalizing-children-at-school.html?ref=editorials ,President Obama wants more law enforcements into school buildings. It goes on and  discusses that allowing more policeman in the schools increases more criminal arrests. This article on "Criminalizing Children in School" talks about how kids at the age of 12 are being treated as criminals by doing minor things like cursing in school as so on. It was shown in a 2011 study from the University of Houston, Maryland, Clear Lake etc. that younger people who spend time in jail will create even more problems with law enforcements when they get older. I agree with this article to a certain extent because I feel like that even though policeman are in the schools to protect, create a better way in behaving, and also keeping kids from making mistakes they are still creating worse disturbance because the minor arrests that are taking place creates bad behavior. At the end of the day, schools need policeman to not only be their for our safety, but their to be an example, not a hindrance.