<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I can't speak for any increase or decrease in violence at schools, but I will refer you to Stephen Pinker's book 'The Better Angels of our Nature' for a surprising look at what has been happening over the last couple of hundred years from war down to assault. Remember, the media are all over anything they can put on TV. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 1:29 PM Ben Zaiboc <<a href="mailto:ben@zaiboc.net">ben@zaiboc.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">SR Ballard <<a href="mailto:sen.otaku@gmail.com" target="_blank">sen.otaku@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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"I grew up in fear of the cops at my school..."<br>
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I think the phrase "the cops at my school" has to be the most disturbing <br>
thing I've read on this list. Are things really so bad in the US these <br>
days that schools have cops? Or am I misreading this?<br>
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Ben Zaiboc<br>
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