POLICE NOW IN SCHOOLS TO PROTECT AND SERVE ON SCHOOLKIDS... THAT PERFUME COULD BE USED AS A WEAPON!

The US schools with their own police

More and more US schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. Why is the state criminalising normal childhood behaviour?

• • Chris McGreal
  • guardian.co.uk, Monday 9 January 2012 15.00 EST
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A policeman on the beat in a school in southern Texas. Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Alamy

The charge on the police docket was "disrupting class". But that's not how 12-year-old Sarah Bustamantes saw her arrest for spraying two bursts of perfume on her neck in class because other children were bullying her with taunts of "you smell".
"I'm weird. Other kids don't like me," said Sarah, who has been diagnosed with attention-deficit and bipolar disorders and who is conscious of being overweight. "They were saying a lot of rude things to me. Just picking on me. So I sprayed myself with perfume. Then they said: 'Put that away, that's the most terrible smell I've ever smelled.' Then the teacher called the police."

The policeman didn't have far to come. He patrols the corridors of Sarah's school, Fulmore Middle in Austin, Texas. Like hundreds of schools in the state, and across large parts of the rest of the US, Fulmore Middle has its own police force with officers in uniform who carry guns to keep order in the canteens, playgrounds and lessons. Sarah was taken from class, charged with a criminal misdemeanour and ordered to appear in court.

READ HOW OUR BRAVE PEACE OFFICERS KEEP US SAFE FROM PERFUME WIELDING SCUMBAGS HERE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools