• autismdragon [he/him, they/them]English
      4•2 years ago

      Looks like the top and best comments are against this? PublicFreakout normally hates cops.

      I’ve seen what you’re talking about before but it doesn’t seem to apply to this thread. Like I’m sure the comments exist in there but on a quick perusal of the top comments it doesnt seem to be there.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]English
    59•2 years ago

    they’ve been there for decades now unfortunately

    I once got followed by one through the school, the doofus was peeking around corners and literally tiptoeing ldespite me clearly watching him follow me through the door and through the whole school. Not the brightest people, cops.

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]English
      10•2 years ago

      Apparently there’s been a shitton of incidents of “resource officers” fucking students. I dont have a source but its common. Fucking digusting. They probably volunteered for the position for that exact purpose.

    • Helmic [he/him]English
      41•2 years ago

      Really wish people would talk more about just how widespread this is, there are so many pedophile cops and they keep getting to be cops after being exposed.

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]English
    35•2 years ago

    Never tell yourself that you’re worthless. Did you know you’ve stopped just as many school shootings as every American school cop in history?

  • ratboy [they/them]English
    43•2 years ago

    Yep, officer Davis was my SRO back in the early 2000’s. He was known for harassing kids at school AND purposefully being the cop to bust kids after hours for smoking weed and such. He fucking hated teenagers

    • uralsolo [he/him]English
      20•2 years ago

      I had two interactions with my middle school’s SROs. First one was when the lock on my locker was cut and my Nintendo DS was stolen (they didn’t do shit), second was when I had attached my house keys to my lanyard (they made all the kids wear one) and the SRO got super pissed about it and pulled me to the principal’s office (who also had her house keys on her lanyard lmao).

      Oddly enough they didn’t show up for any of the three or four fights I got into.

      • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]English
        2•2 years ago

        Damn, my highschool’s SRO at least bothered to break up fights… though all the fights I saw him get involved in were girl fights… but to be fair dude’s usually scheduled their fights for after school so there werent many guys fighting in school. But anyway.

        Honestly I dont have any horror stories about my SRO but my school wasn’t racially diverse and I was white. I was neurodivergent though and did have meltdowns but the SRO never got involved. Also I think he didnt exist in my freshman year where I had the most meltdowns? Idr though. But yeah the only thing I remember him ever doing was breaking up girl fights.

        ETA: just to be clear, my individual experiance does not justify the existance of pigs in schools. (Or pigs at all).

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]English
      11•2 years ago

      One of our cops had a car chase with a student after school. Ended up ramming the kid from behind and totaling the kid’s truck in a ditch. Kid got a fractured wrist. The stated reason is the kid was speeding (he wasn’t) and resisting arrest since the kid didn’t immediately pull over (there was nowhere to pull over on that road).

      • ratboy [they/them]English
        18•2 years ago

        Jesus, that’s so fucked up. I’m not surprised that he’s still there, though. I remember ours manhandled the shit out of thus freshman I knew. The kid was a shit talker but he was like maybe 110 lbs soaking wet. He also just absolutely relished in intimidating us. He had held me and my friends for over an hour trying to sweat us when he came up on us at the park. It was a regular occurrence, threatening that he would call our parents or throw us in juvi. It was demented.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]English
          15•2 years ago

          Yeah, that’s about normal. Usually the excuse when they hurt innocent kids was “well, they aren’t angels, and he was right to suspect them”. Which was always used against poor kids.

          The SRO was black, but that didn’t stop him from being racist either. But he dished it out to basically any of the latchkey kids who were caught with joints at any point during highschool or middle school.

          All the SROs for elementary through highschool knew each other, so they’d pass on “trouble kid” lists and those lists became self fulfilling prophecies for the most part.

  • ZapataCadabra [he/him]English
    35•2 years ago

    Some schools have a dedicated military recruiter who is posted there. The school in particular I’m thinking of is in one of the poorer parts of the city with more minorities.

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]English
      7•2 years ago

      Yeah my school had a ROTC program. Most of the kids in it were on the poorer end iirc. Some were just military fetishists or kids who didnt want to do gym (though the later would usually only do it freshman year, realize that drills are harder, and switch lol). I had a lot of friends in ROTC and I think only one of them joined the military though? But yeah. Its sick because its literally grooming killers and imperialists starting at 14 years old.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]English
      7•2 years ago

      The three military recruiters at my school ended up discharging a handgun in the school gym one time. They didn’t hit anyone, this was after school was over and they were taking turns flipping a pistol around like Revolver Ocelot. Also one of them would routinely try to entice kids to join the military so they could get a girlfriend. He claimed Iraqi women loved Americans. It was sick.

  • CDommunist [they/them, comrade/them]English
    34•2 years ago

    Some hog sro cop pointed an unloaded and stripped down shotgun at me and other kids in my middle school class during a presentation about how quickly cops could take down a school shooter

    He swung it around at lot waving the barrel at the assembly and pointed it towards the crowd, he really enjoyed cocking the barrel

    You could tell this hog had so many hero fantasies about killing an active shooter

  • @morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    Contrary to all the others in this thread, the cop at my school was a great guy.

    And I mean, school shootings aside, if you have thousands of kids in one area, seems pretty reasonable to have a cop.

  • mar_k [he/him]English
    25•2 years ago

    In middle school, they sent an SRO after my friend and I because we skipped class to hang out in the nearby soccer field. Instead of just guiding us back inside, she was weirdly hostile and treated us like terrorists or some shit. Confiscated and searched through our backpacks, phones, and school chromebooks. Didn’t get our phones back til the end of the day after a call to our parents

    In high school, our SRO was this serious looking really tall dude who would always stare everyone down for no reason. Made everyone very uncomfortable. He also had a drug sniffing dog that people say did unannounced searches in classrooms (which is somehow legal and accepted in the great satan)

    In 9th grade, he accused my friend of vaping when he came out of the bathroom and searched his bag because he “smelled like a fruity vape flavor” (it was literally his deodorant)

    In my 10th grade history class, these two friends made an obvious joke about getting in a fight with each other (like, debating who would win) and our old ass prudish teacher made a huge deal over it, calling the SRO over to preemptively stop a non-existent fight. SRO took these two guys to his office for the rest of class (like 5-10 minutes). I asked one of the guys about it later and he said he raised his voice at them and told them stuff like “you’re gonna grow up to be riffraff bums if you don’t change your attitudes” (the guys he talked to like this were black and latino)