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It could, but the time period violent crime has been going down and the period that saw far more cops in schools don't completely overlap.
by ameister14 12y ago
It could, but the time period violent crime has been going down and the period that saw far more cops in schools don't completely overlap.
- dragonwriter 12y agoThe "more cops deployed in schools" thing lagged the preference for police intervention and legal charges for school-site crimes that previously might have been handled informally (deploying cops to schools was a response to the fact that the cops were being called to schools more often.) So if it was the change in disciplinary approach that drove the decrease in violent crime, its quite possible that effect would somewhat precede the increase in police deployments in schools.