538 did a piece on SROs in US schools.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/s...urce-officers/
Quote:
The white sheriff’s deputy who grabbed a black student’s chair, flipped her over and dragged her across the floor on Monday at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, prompting an FBI civil rights investigation, worked as a school resource officer. SROs, law enforcement officers who are specially trained to work in schools, are a common sight in public schools, but their work is seldom scrutinized — and the Spring Valley High incident is focusing attention on the danger that their presence could have a disparate impact on black students. A 2008 study by the ACLU of SROs in three Connecticut towns found that black students were disproportionately likely to be arrested or reported to the police by an SRO.
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