https://freerepublic.com/tag/abigailbeneke/ en-us Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:51:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4391677/posts ... The paper “Niceness as Whiteness in School Police Officers’ Perceptions of Student Arrest” addresses the “perceptions of arrest” by school resource officers, or SROs) in two school districts. The officers appear to be precisely what you are looking for in an SRO: empathetic and reluctant to make arrests. The researchers admit that they try to avoid arrests. However, according to the authors, hidden behind those sympathetic approaches was, of course, a boiling caldron of racism in terms of the racial disparity of those arrested. Indeed, the researchers realized that it was the niceness itself that was the evidence of... JONATHAN TURLEY (blog) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4391677/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:51:17 GMT