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In reply to the discussion: What will a perpetually bored cop do in school? [View all]knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)The school I worked in with one, that guy was seriously busy. He did patrols, he dealt with kids with drugs, he dealt with truancy big-time, he did cafeteria duty every day so one of us teachers wouldn't have to, he went to all the main sporting events and many of the not-as-popular ones, he often unlocked stuff for us when we couldn't find someone with the keys, and he spent a lot of time developing relationships with kids so they would go to him with anything important. Good guy, actually, and we were lucky to have him. Kids often forgot he was a real cop, though, and would confess stuff to him he'd have to do something about and then complain that he shouldn't have said anything.
If we'd had a bad cop, though, that would have been hellish.