With school resource officers being an essential asset for school safety, a survey was done last week with over 20 De Anza students that found more than half of them to believe they can also be intimidated.
Melissa Cabrera, 20, an economics major said having cops on campus puts students into the justice system.
According to CNN, a video has been circulating widely on social media showing a school resource officer violently throwing a student out of her desk for arrest.
“We have replaced teachers and counselors with police officers,” Cabrera said. “Students should not be treated like criminals under any circumstance.”
Mark Cobangbang, a former De Anza student said he grew up having to go through medal detectors in his high school.
“Just that realization at such a young age is too soon to grow up and think of the world that way,” he said.
Another recent footage that has gotten viral just this year shows a police officer slamming a 12-year-old girl face down to the ground at Rhodes Middle School.
“Whats up with these police abusing their power,” said 20-year-old Jon Casupanan, kinesiology major. “Everyday theres a story about some crazy police man shooting, tazing or hurting innocent people unreasonably.”
Jamie Boyd, 25, an english major, said its hard for her as a parent to think that school safety is an issue even towards police officers.
“When you think of school you hope that its a place thats going to be safe for your children,” she said. “It really makes me think of home schooling my child.”
Jenny Ho, 21, biology major student said officers are looked at more like an enemy now a days, especially because of the black lives they have been taking.
Ho said, “they are doing more harm than good.”
Bikram Sidhu, 20, psychology major said, “This is an issue that our country needs to address and look more deeply into.”
Evon Nguyen, 21, a biology major said her mom is an RN nurse and told her that when a teenager is brought to a hospital they are specially trained to handle them differently from an adult.
She said, “These cops need to be trained the same way.”
Another student, Donovan Aguilar, 22, administration of justice major said that they are just doing their job.
“Cops have that power and disobeying an officer is a crime so those kids got what they deserved,” he said.
Nguyen said this is a serious situation and we should not just sit here and watch something like this happen.
“We have to start changing and do something about this,” she said.
