Reinforcing Positive Student Behavior to Prevent School Violence
Enhancing the Role of School Safety Agents
In 1998, when New York City transferred responsibility for its 3,500 school safety officers from the Board of Education to the police department, it was part of a nationwide trend. The U.S. Department of Justice, through its office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), was encouraging officials across the country to place law enforcement
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