Board Approves Plan To Put NYPD in Charge of School Security
The New York City school board unanimously approved a controversial arrangement last week to put the city's police force in charge of hiring, firing, and training school security officers. The vote ended three years of often heated negotiations between Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who proposed the plan, and school leaders.
Despite contentions by civil rights groups and some educators that police department oversight would create a hostile atmosphere in the city schools, the board voted 7-0 to put the New York City Police Department in charge of the district's 3,200 school security officers.
When the policy takes effect in January, New York's police department will become what is believed to be the first municipal police force to be in charge of a...
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