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D.C. charter schools get police
By The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Washington is stationing police officers at more than two dozen city charter schools.
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced the police postings Monday. The department recently began stationing officers at charter schools in an attempt to address violence that has dogged some of them this fall.
The plan spreads school resource officers among both charter and traditional public schools.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said Monday that she believed the new approach would work. But the police union expressed concerns saying that spreading the same number of officers among more schools would mean an overall decreased police presence in schools.