SANTA ROSA BEACH — Teaching and policing both deal with disruptive behaviors and safety issues, but in very different ways. Karla O'Dell has seen troubled students from both perspectives. The school resource deputy at Emerald Coast Middle School started out in 2005 as a high school physical education teacher in Central Florida. She loved teaching, but O'Dell said she always had a "what if" feeling about law enforcement. To find out what policing would be like, O'Dell decided to join the police force in 2012...
