Bad Cops
When schools adopt "zero tolerance" policies and treat rule infractions
as crimes, they often bring in actual police officers to serve as
in-house security, and the entire student body become perps-in-waiting.
Tim Cushing's litany of police overreach in schools includes a
third-grader and a fifth-grader who were subjected to intimidating
interrogation by a police officer over the alleged theft of
one dollar;
arrests for students who participated in a water-balloon fight at the
end of the school year; felony charges for putting a joke in the school
yearbook; arrests for
flatulence; a cop who slammed a
10-year-old's head into a table so hard he got a concussion -- because
the student was not at music class; and a diabetic student who was
beaten by the school cop for falling asleep in class.
But it ends with a wrongful death suit that you have to read for
yourself. Kids aren't perps. Cops don't belong in schools. When you
treat a school like a prison with a curriculum, you view every kid's
actions through the lens of the criminal code.
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