Certainly when I was going to school and even for many years later, having police officers stationed in schools, having that as their permanent job, was unheard of. I'm pretty sure most people would have been shocked to even consider the possibility.

I don't know how we got to this point. I don't know what pressing need made people think cops should be essentially part of school staff.

In this case, we see a cop treating a student like a criminal, abusing a boy in ways we would not ordinarily tolerate. It's crazy.

And, you know, Rutherford County and the Murfreesboro Tennessee area are not by any stretch of the imagination plagued by crime or violence. It's a pretty bucolic, peaceful area.

I know you teach in a big city where crime rates are naturally higher than in the countryside, so I'm not sure why your school can exist perfectly well without cops but this rural American school seemingly can't.

Does not make any sense to me.