1966

• Tucson, AZ Police Department places police on six junior high campuses.

• The Chicago Police Department begins the “Officer Friendly” program, deploying 20 specially recruited and trained officers to 773 elementary schools to teach good citizenship and hand out “Junior Citizen” certificates.

• The Dade County Education Commission, the school board over Miami public schools, authorizes the creation of a Security Services Department (SSD) under a Director of Security. The SSD is responsible for the “protection of life and property” the school board owns or leases. In 1973, the SSD established the first night patrol, employing 19 officers in response to school break-ins. That year, the district begins stationing those officers in selected schools during regular school hours.