Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.
The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.
Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.
Force them to leave. Is there some law that says a cop has to be at the school?
Yes, they’re called School Resource Officers, and they are mandated to have one at every school. My son’s elementary school had a mobile home on school property, where the School Resource Officer actually lived with her family. I don’t know if any other school that had that set-up.
They’re supposed to be good for the schools, helping keep the peace, set an example for the kids, give them someone trustworthy they can come to, etc.
But they often end up abusing, raping, beating, arresting, etc. the kids instead. Good luck getting the kids to trust you, or any other cops, after that.
I just looked it up and in my state its a choice. They may have one but it isn’t a requirement.
Given the number of school shootings… Who knows.