Caption: School - Security: Kettering H.S. Student Leroy Graves, 17, 9th grade Ninth grader Leroy Graves, right, with a security officer who was randomly checking students' belongings with a metal detector at Kettering High School Monday. The officer didn't identify himself. Leroy Graves, 17, couldn't get through the front door of Kettering High School Monday morning because he didn't have his identification card. So security officers sent him home -- they thought. Graves, a ninth grader at the school, went in a side door instead. "I lost my badge, so I snuck in," Graves said matter-of-factly as he was leaving the building Monday, the first day of a security crackdown in the Detroit public schools. The ease with which Graves slipped through another door demonstrates the problem some security officers and school administrators say they have in stepping up enforcement of security rules: There are more doors than security officers in the schools. The number of officers dropped from 228 more than two years ago to fewer than than 70 today, said Ralph Garcia, supervisor of security officers on the east side and head of one of the two "sweep teams" recently instituted in the schools.
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