"...
Stephanie Payne... OR...
your lyin eyes?"
Some schools, moreover, wanted no part of the program, including North York's C.W. Jefferys Collegiate, site of the fatal 2007 shooting of 15-year-old Jordan Manners that was the genesis of that school-safety report. By a narrow margin, parents decided a police presence might create more problems than it solved.
But data from the 22 public schools where officers were placed show a 17-per-cent decline in student suspensions during the past semester, compared with a year earlier, and a 16-per-cent drop in criminal charges.
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