srothstein wrote:Schools need police because we have criminals in school and as parents. They prefer to have an officer on campus.
That makes Mark's point even stronger that school police jurisdiction should be the campus and adjacent streets. They can arrest for felonies and class A/B misd anywhere in Texas so restricting their jurisdiction doesn't limit their power to protect the school, the students and the employees. But it sounds like they're not doing that if they're giving someone a traffic ticket for cutting across a nightclub parking lot on the other side of the county.srothstein wrote:When we talk about what is the jurisdiction of these officers, we are really asking where they are allowed to write traffic tickets. For everything else, all cops in the state have the same authority statewide.