Amid steeply escalating school crime, drug use and fighting, individual Los Angeles public school campuses should be allowed to decide whether to station a police officer on campus, a safety task force said, a recommendation that, if adopted, would reverse wins by anti-police student activists but respond to calls by many parents to restore officers. Recent practice in the L.A. Unified School District has been to keep police off campus. Instead, school police — a department paid for and operated... Read this story