By Jonathan Lemire
A student has not been shot in
a New York City school in 13 years, a heartening statistic in an era of
commonplace school massacres. But there is a growing cry to rid the city's
schools of metal detectors, the very tool some observers credit with keeping
them safe.
Some parent groups and
advocates say the scanners installed at the city's most troubled institutions
more than two decades ago are now unneeded because of low crime rates, and they
condemn them as discriminatory, since by and large they sit in schools serving
minority neighborhoods.
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Source: NBC News
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