The use of police in schools has increased dramatically in the past 15 years. It has become a controversial issue among communities that have faced bad experiences with those policemen in the schools. Whereby, it makes me think “police” are meant to protect and serve. But in schools?

Throughout the years, there have been many reasons that make people refuse to accept policing in schools. According to a recent New York Times article examines the effectiveness, and some of the unintended consequences, of hiring police officers to deter crime and keep students safe from each other. The article reports a surge in arrests or misdemeanor charges against children in schools where officers are stationed. Critics charge that most of the cases are essentially nonviolent — scuffles, truancy, cursing at teachers — that are better handled in the principal’s office. As Denisse C. Gottfresond, a criminologist at the University of Maryland who studies school violence told the Times: “There is no evidence that placing officers in the schools improves safety. And it increases the number of minor behavior problems that are referred to the police, pushing kids into the criminal system.”Having officers present in classrooms and cafeterias has created its own set of concerns — about the criminalization of typical teenage misbehavior, about the discriminatory enforcement of vague laws, and about the excessive use of physical force against children in school spaces where they should be able to feel safe.

Moreover, in my researches, I found many cases of police abuse in school. A year ago there was a viral cellphone video recorded inside South Carolina’s Spring Valley High where it showed how a police officer slammed a student to the ground. There was another case with Marshawn Pitts, who attends the Academy for Learning in the south suburb of Dolton, was slammed into a locker