Cops in schools: Way to rebuild community trust in law enforcement?

The 8-year-old boy sat in a chair, sobbing, as a sheriff’s deputy handcuffed him around the biceps because his wrists were too small.

“You don’t get to swing at me like that,” the deputy said to the boy, who was diagnosed with ADHD, while a teacher recorded the incident in Covington, Ky., last fall.

“You can do what we’ve asked you to or you can suffer the consequences,” the officer continues.

The video went viral, and the deputy is now facing a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The sight of a uniformed police officer handcuffing an elementary school student may be surprising, even shocking. But police presence in schools is not new. After growing steadily for decades, the trend accelerated in the wake of school shootings such as the one at Columbine High in Colorado. Today, more than 19,000 police officers are now employed full time in American schools…

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