Part Enforcer News Today

Them. >> reporter: part counselor, part enforcer. according to the national association of school resource officers, their numbers grew in the late 80s under the dare program developed to help children stay away from drugs and violence. growing more following the shooting in columbine, colorado, in 1999. after schools felt a ned to have access to armed offofficers. now some 32,000 sros are working full or part time at 43% of public schools. and with more officers, more cameras, comes more scruti...

District about. mybe that should have been handled by the teacher and that school administrator without ever calling the deputy. >> reporter: former deputy ben fields was called to the classroom after the 16-year-old student refused repeated to leave by both her teach every and a school administrator. just this week in sacramento, a resource officer called to help break out a fight involving about a dozen students. this schools principal tossed during the fight, police end l up arresting three t...