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jaunte12/21/2012 8:50:39 am PST

Putting a Police Officer In Every School Would Cost At Least $5.5 Billion a Year

According to the National Center for Education Statistics there are 98,817 K-12 schools in the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says cops make $55,000 a year. So we could put $5.4 billion as the low level estimate of the cost. Cops obviously have health care benefits and pension and disability benefits for police offers tend to be fairly costly so the real price would be higher than that.

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