i keep bringing this up in different threads because it was so eye opening to me…
looking at when school police became a thing in the us, it seems to have to do with the end of segregation
white people were forced to allow black kids into white schools, and poof suddenly kids were so “problematic”* that white school boards started hiring police and creating school police departments
it’s just out and out racism basically. and unique to us because of how white america handled ( and tried to suppress ) civil rights
( * where problematic of course often means having the wrong clothes, or slang, or hair styles, or any other paper thin justification. 
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