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In reply to the discussion: What will a perpetually bored cop do in school? [View all]Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Here's what they do:
Break up fights
Write traffic tickets
Stop truants
Look for drug use on campus
Handle strangers on campus that aren't near the front office.
Handle thefts
Occasionally take care of severely disruptive students
Provide first aid, CPR, and aed
Gang interventions and intelligence
Handle most weapons cases (though I usually take care of knives myself, and personally have taken one gun away from s student).
All that, plus we have two unarmed hall monitors. The cops are not only POST 1&2 certified, they're generally experts at dealing with children.
My wife's school has 200 kids. Two school police on campus at all times. Desks for metro, metro gang unit, north Las Vegas pd, Henderson pd, city Marshall, metro gang unit, and once the tribal police chased an armed gunman into campus. Those two school cops work all freak ing day long.