[quote name='FFPM571' post='324931' date='Jul 28 2009, 15:10 ']Whats the reasoning with having all the ISD police. It looks like alot of them are buying old DPS cast off cars.[/quote]
Well Texas being the huge state that it is has 1,031 districts and with the singular exception of Stafford Municipal School District near Houston they are all Independent School Districts. Meaning they are independent of the city & county control. As such a good chunk of them have taken to creating their own police agencies. The school district lines are not neatly arranged to the city/area they are named after, and several have facilities where there would be no local police department, and would rely on the dispatch of the sheriff, constable or DPS.
While Texas has the most school police departments, California and Georgia also have a large supply of them. Georgia's tend to be county BOE (Board of Education) rather than individual school districts, and are mostly arranged around major population centers (Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Savannah). Most of California's (which mostly are called Unified School Districts) and are almost all in Southern California. Los Angeles Unified School Police is actually the 5th largest police department in the county and has it's own SWAT team.
Beyond that Florida has about half dozen county school district police, there have been the creation of a half dozen or so school district specific departments in Pennsylvania over the past decade (most of them being "area school district") the most well known long standing would be Pittsburgh & Philadelphia. NJ has a couple in/around Camden, Detroit has one, there a few in Kentucky, as well as Mississippi.
I guess it's a sad statement of our current situation, but the fact is kids bring guns to school these days...and then could degenerate into a debate about parenting, poverty, and the state of public education...
Well Texas being the huge state that it is has 1,031 districts and with the singular exception of Stafford Municipal School District near Houston they are all Independent School Districts. Meaning they are independent of the city & county control. As such a good chunk of them have taken to creating their own police agencies. The school district lines are not neatly arranged to the city/area they are named after, and several have facilities where there would be no local police department, and would rely on the dispatch of the sheriff, constable or DPS.
While Texas has the most school police departments, California and Georgia also have a large supply of them. Georgia's tend to be county BOE (Board of Education) rather than individual school districts, and are mostly arranged around major population centers (Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Savannah). Most of California's (which mostly are called Unified School Districts) and are almost all in Southern California. Los Angeles Unified School Police is actually the 5th largest police department in the county and has it's own SWAT team.
Beyond that Florida has about half dozen county school district police, there have been the creation of a half dozen or so school district specific departments in Pennsylvania over the past decade (most of them being "area school district") the most well known long standing would be Pittsburgh & Philadelphia. NJ has a couple in/around Camden, Detroit has one, there a few in Kentucky, as well as Mississippi.
I guess it's a sad statement of our current situation, but the fact is kids bring guns to school these days...and then could degenerate into a debate about parenting, poverty, and the state of public education...
-- James
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