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Protests Cause US Officials to Rethink Use of School Police Officers
An increasing number of American cities are rethinking the presence of law enforcement officers in their schools.
City officials are considering ways to answer the concerns of thousands of people who have protested the death of George Floyd. In some areas, young protesters have been demanding the removal of officers from schools.
George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died May 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota after a white police officer pressed his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd was handcuffed and lying on the ground. He can be heard saying "I can't breathe" in videos of his arrest and death.
Minneapolis suspended its school resource officer program last week. School district officials in nearby Saint Paul, Minnesota, and in Denver, Colorado, are considering doing the same. Protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia have made the end of its school resource officer program one of their demands.
School resource officers are law enforcement officers who are responsible for keeping schools and their students safe. Along with enforcing the law, the resource officers are expected to act as unofficial counselors and provide guidance on issues such as bullying and drunk driving.
Portland Public Schools, the largest school district in Oregon, announced last week it was cutting ties with the Portland Police Bureau. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said he would also discontinue using school resource officers in two of the city's smaller districts.
"Leaders must listen and respond to community," Wheeler said. "We must disrupt the patterns of racism and injustice."
Many in Portland have voiced support for the decision to remove the officers. But others raised immediate concerns about student safety in the event of a school shooting or other emergency.
Mo Canady is head of The National Association of School Resource Officers. He described any decision to remove the officers from schools as a "knee-jerk reaction." In other words, the decision happened very quickly and without much thought.
Canady added that the actions by a few school districts could cause many other districts to make the same decision. He said such moves cause harm to students around the country.
Canady called Floyd's death "atrocious" and the actions of the Minneapolis police "evil." But he said that when school resource officer programs are "done right," they can be good examples of community-based policing.
But critics of the programs say the officers' presence can also lead to the criminalization of students, especially students of color. In 2015, a school resource officer in South Carolina was caught on video forcing a female student on the ground and pulling her across a classroom. The student had refused to surrender her phone to the officer.
There are an estimated 25,000 school resource officers nationwide, Canady said.
Across the United States, 43 percent of public schools had an armed law enforcement officer present at least once a week in the 2015-2016 school year. That was the last year the National Center for Education Statistics studied the issue.
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重点讲解：
1. along with 与……一起；伴随；
He came along with some friends.
他和几个朋友一道来的。
2. in other words 换言之；也就是说；
In other words, you need to succinctly state what your application does.
换句话说，您需要简洁地描述应用程序完成的工作。
3. refuse to 不肯；拒绝；
I refuse to act that way when my kids fight.
我的孩子们打起架来时，我不会那样做。
4. at least 至少；最少；
He's been away for at least a week.
他走了总有一个星期吧。
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抗议致使美国官员重新考虑对校警的使用
越来越多的美国城市正在重新考虑，学校里是否该部署执法人员。
市政府官员在考虑如何解决数千名抗议乔治·弗洛伊德之死的民众的担忧。在一些地区，年轻的抗议者一直要求从学校撤走警官。
乔治·弗洛伊德，是一名46岁的黑人男子。5月25日在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市，一名白人警察将膝盖压在弗洛伊德的颈上近9分钟，致使其死亡。弗洛伊德戴着手铐躺在地上，在他被捕和死亡的视频中能听到他在说“我不能呼吸”。
明尼阿波利斯大学上周暂停了其学校资源官员项目，明尼苏达州圣保罗附近和科罗拉多州丹佛的学区官员也在考虑采取相同的措施。维吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔市的抗议者，已经将终止学校资源官员计划作为他们的一项要求。
学校资源官员，是负责保护学校及学生安全的执法人员。在执法的同时，资源官员还将担任非官方顾问，就欺凌和酒后驾车等问题提供指导。
俄勒冈州最大的学区波特兰公立学校上周宣布，将与波特兰警察局断绝联系。波特兰市长特德·惠勒表示，他还将停止在该市两个较小的地区使用学校资源官员。
惠勒说：“领导人必须倾听并回应社会，我们必须打破种族主义和不公正的模式。”
波特兰的许多人表示支持撤换官员的决定，但也有人对学校枪击事件或其他紧急情况下的学生安全，提出了迫切地回应。
莫·卡纳迪是全国学校资源官员协会负责人，他表示，任何把这些官员从学校撤走的决定都是“下意识的反应”。换句话说，该决定发生得非常迅速，并未经过太多的考虑。
卡纳迪补充说，少数学区的行动可能会导致许多其他学区做出同样的决定。他说，这样的举动对全国的学生都会造成伤害。
卡纳迪称弗洛伊德之死是“残暴的”，明尼阿波利斯警方的行为是“邪恶的”。但他表示，当学校资源官员的项目“做得好”时，他们可以成为社区警务的好范例。
但批评该项目的人则说，这些官员的出现也可能导致学生，特别是有色人种学生被定罪。2015年，南卡罗来纳州的一名学校资源官员被拍到，在视频中强迫一名女生趴在地上，并拉着她穿过教室。那个学生拒绝把她的电话交给该官员。
卡纳迪说，全国估计有25000名学校资源官员。
在美国，43%的公立学校在2015-2016学年，每周至少有一名武装执法人员在场。这是国家教育统计中心研究该问题的最后一年。
艾希礼·汤普森报道。
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