Most people think of police officers only in a moment of crisis.
Vanessa Grigsby's job as a school resource officer at J. Lupton Simpson Middle School is to see that crises are averted. Ninety percent of what I do is what we call mediations - peer conflicts and resolutions. While some adults fear middle schools and the adolescent emotions they contain, Grigsby isn't one of them. I have 17 nieces and nephews, so I really enjoy kids, and I think you make the biggest impact at the middle school level. At the high school level they're a little more set in their ways.