The ACLU reports that students are over 3 times more likely to be arrested in school if a uniformed thug is stationed in the school.

This is not a controlled study; we cannot be sure that the assignment of a thug to the school is responsible for all of that disparity. We can be sure, though, that having a thug handy means more arrests, more students pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline.

It is also clear that having a thug to punish students even for little outbursts or indiscipline is no substitute for having nurses, social workers and psychologists to help them.