Defunding / abolishing school police (consolidated thread)

Discussion in 'Police, Jailers, Prison Guards, Firefighters, etc.' started by News Readers, May 27, 2016.

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    Doug Gansler: School resource officers keep kids safe and out of the criminal justice system; we need more of them | GUEST COMMENTARY

    The number one job of government is to keep people safe. But the government has been failing to do its job in Baltimore. A recently-released report revealed that the number one cause of unexpected death of Baltimore children is homicide: 93% of youth killed by people who were not related to them were shot; 69% of the victims had been previously charged in the juvenile justice system, and 40% had been suspended from school at least twice in the last year. Guns are killing our young people, and kids who get into trouble at school are at greater risk of ...


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    Virginia parents concerned bill will lead to spike in student referral to police

    The Virginia General Assembly passed legislation that will allow school principals to report some misdemeanor offenses of students to law enforcement, reversing parts of a previous law. Lawmakers, parents and advocates are concerned the legislation will prompt the overreporting of minor offenses to law enforcement versus leaving reporting to the discretion of school officials. Symone Walker is the mother of two children, one enrolled in Arlington Public Schools. She is also the co-chair of the Arlington NAACP Education Committee and vice chair of the Arlington Special Education Advisory Committee. Walker worries that Virginia isn’t working fast enough to close up ...


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    The Virginia General Assembly passed legislation that will allow school principals to report some misdemeanor offenses of students to law enforcement, reversing parts of a previous law...


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    The Virginia General Assembly passed legislation that will allow school principals to report some misdemeanor offenses of students to law enforcement, reversing parts of a previous law...


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    SRO about ‘about prevention and building relationships’ says GCSD super

    The school board here approved its first contract for a school resource officer although it has had a series of officers since the end of the last century. Officers were originally posted in both Guilderland High School and Farnsworth Middle School although budget cuts caused the district to reduce those two posts to one, shared throughout the district. A written agreement is required by the district’s safety plan, Superintendent Marie Wiles said at an earlier meeting. The town pays the officer’s salary for the year and the school district then pays the town for the 180 days that the officer ...


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    Police officers were phased out of Boston’s public schools during the pandemic. Families wonder what that means for public safety.

    For decades, Boston’s public schools hired police officers to monitor their hallways, a consistent source of comfort and controversy. But when students returned to class in September after more than a year of learning from home, the officers were gone, quietly replaced with safety specialists without arrest powers, uniforms, or handcuffs. Since then, the schools have witnessed an alarming number of attacks, one of which left a principal severely injured, that have raised concerns about public safety, particularly given the emotional distress teenagers have experienced during the pandemic. Last week, a teacher and student at TechBoston Academy in Dorchester were ...


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    Editorial: Return Boston police to public schools

    The violent assault of Patricia Lampron should have been a wake-up call for Boston’s progressive politicians. The Henderson School principal was beaten into unconsciousness and seriously injured by a student last November. At the time, Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius described the attack on Lampron and another staffer as a “disturbing and completely unacceptable” assault. She was right. It could also have been a watershed moment in ensuring the safety of BPS students, teachers and staff. It wasn’t. Despite the incident, newly elected Mayor Michelle Wu stood firm: no police in Boston schools. Earlier this month, two teens were ...


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    Push for more police in Haverhill, Massachusetts schools after student arrested for fight

    Officials in Haverhill are promising security changes in school buildings as residents of the Massachusetts city push for a bigger police presence after a wild fight at the high school led to a student’s arrest. Police said the fight happened in the Haverhill High School cafeteria during lunch around 11:30 a.m. Thursday. No injuries were reported and classes resumed for the day, but a female student involved in that fight was arrested and removed from the school by police officers. In addition, teachers later found a knife in the cafeteria after the fight. A number of parents and students vented ...


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    Push for more police in schools in Mass. city after student arrested for fight

    Officials in Haverhill are promising security changes in school buildings as residents of the Massachusetts city push for a bigger police presence after a wild fight at the high school led to a student’s arrest. Police said the fight happened in the Haverhill High School cafeteria during lunch around 11:30 a.m. Thursday. No injuries were reported and classes resumed for the day, but a female student involved in that fight was arrested and removed from the school by police officers. In addition, teachers later found a knife in the cafeteria after the fight. A number of parents and students vented ...


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    Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Calls for Curbs on School Policing

    The nation’s largest teachers’ union adopted a new policy statement calling for an end to the “criminalization and policing of students"—but stopped short of urging the removal of armed officers on school campuses. Last year, National Education Association delegates established a task force to explore the role of law enforcement in education. The task force—which included teachers and at least one school security guard—has since developed a policy statement on how to achieve “safe, just, and equitable schools” and published a 73-page report outlining the group’s analysis and rationale. During the NEA’s representative assembly this week, delegates voted by a ...


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    Hundreds of elementary-aged children were arrested in U.S. schools

    "Don't make a wrong move," the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. "Period." The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject's thin wrists. "Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts," the subject exclaimed. The officer pressed his weight into the subject's small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old. "If you, my friend, are not acquainted with the juvenile justice system, you will be very shortly," the officer told the child. Earlier that day, the child allegedly spit at a teacher. Now, he was in handcuffs ...


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    Hundreds of elementary-aged children were arrested in U.S. schools

    Black children and kids with disabilities were disproportionately impacted, according to CBS News analysis of Education Department data.


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    Black children and kids with disabilities were disproportionately impacted, according to CBS News analysis of Education Department data.


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    Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schools

    "The whole idea behind why we're here is to create an environment where students can learn, teachers can teach. We're not here to criminalize our students." Virginia has taken a different approach.


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    Handcuffs in Hallways: Mother of handcuffed 5-year-old speaks as WJZ looks at child arrests in Maryland schools

    Each year hundreds of students nationwide are handcuffed at school for minor disciplinary actions with an outsize impact on Black and Hispanic children and kids with disabilities, according to an analysis of data by CBS News' Investigations. That data showed Maryland had one of the highest school arrest rates in the country. WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren takes you inside a disturbing case where a 5-year-old child was handcuffed and interviewed his mother for the first time, as part of the nationwide 'Handcuffs In Hallways' investigation. The Montgomery County case recently settled and dates to January 2020. The release of body-camera ...


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    Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schools

    "Don't make a wrong move," the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. "Period." The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject's thin wrists. "Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts," the subject exclaimed. The officer pressed his weight into the subject's small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old. "If you, my friend, are not acquainted with the juvenile justice system, you will be very shortly," the officer told the child. Earlier that day, the child allegedly spit at a teacher. Now, he was in handcuffs ...


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    Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schools

    teachers can teach. We're not here to criminalize our students." CBS News Dallas/Fort Worth: Legislation banning arrests of young children in school gives hope to hopeless Virginia has taken a ...


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    'The school failed': Allentown mom speaks out after son arrested at middle school

    JC has rhythm. The 12-year-old, whose name we are withholding to protect his privacy, keeps the beat going at his Allentown church on Sundays. The last year has been hard — the 6th grader was arrested and charged with assault in March. "He was fingerprinted, mug shot, ankle bracelet, juvenile detention," Kristen, his mother said. Kristen says four years ago her son was diagnosed with ADHD and oppositional defiance disorder. On the day JC was arrested at Francis D. Raub Middle School, he was in class and upset. "The assistant principal actually came at him to remove him from the ...


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