11-13-2012, 10:32 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
Has anyone else experienced this in a inner city neighborhood library ? Until I picked him up last week, I had never, ever seen an armed police officer stationed in a library in my life. Even in the downtown city libraries.
Some of the bigger libraries here have security guards, but smaller neighborhood ones do not. A couple of the rougher neighborhoods might even have police stationed there periodically. So the *presence* doesn't strike me as that unusual. However, scaring out kids who are making noise without some more systematic warning does strike me as repressive. I'm trying to imagine how much noise they'd have to make around here to get the same kind of response.
I agree, let your local investigative journalist know about the practice and let them do the footwork legitimately.
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