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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    Video of 6-Year-Old Girl’s Arrest Shows the Perils of Putting Police in Primary Schools

    When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids safe. The recent release of body camera footage from the arrest of a 6-year-old in a Florida school, however, shows that sometimes one threat to the students is the officers themselves. The video shows two police officers placing a 6-year-old student in restraints and removing her from the school, all while the student cries and begs to be released. One of the officers goes on to brag about how many people he has arrested and to refer to the student’s arrest ...


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    It’s Time To Take Cops Out of Schools

    In September of 2019, six-year-old Kaia Rolle was arrested at Elementary Charter School in Orlando, Florida for having a tantrum. She was charged with battery and taken to a youth detention center where she was fingerprinted and her mugshot was taken. Later that day, the same cop who had arrested Rolle arrested an 8-year-old boy. The incident was newsworthy, but not unique. In 2017, a Franklin, Indiana police officer arrested a nine-year-old boy with autism for fighting with another student. The child was charged with “battery and criminal mischief.” Some tens of thousands of cops and security guards roam the ...


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    https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/education/its-time-to-take-cops-out-of-schools/
     
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    No More Cops In Schools

    In September of 2019, six-year-old Kaia Rolle was arrested at Elementary Charter School in Orlando, Florida for having a tantrum. She was charged with battery and taken to a youth detention center where she was fingerprinted and her mugshot was taken. Later that day, the same cop who had arrested Rolle arrested an 8-year-old boy. The incident was newsworthy, but not unique. In 2017, a Franklin, Indiana police officer arrested a nine-year-old boy with autism for fighting with another student. The child was charged with “battery and criminal mischief.” Some tens of thousands of cops and security guards roam the ...


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    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/no-more-cops-schools-201510643.html
     
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    Minneapolis Tragedy Prompts a Hard Look at School Police

    Just eight days after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, an unarmed black man, the school board there voted to cut ties with the city police department, fulfilling a long-time goal of activists. As mass protests continued nationwide over police brutality, activists in other cities—including Chicago and Denver—hope the demonstrations will cause their districts to review their own agreements with local law enforcement agencies, and to consider how those relationships can disproportionately affect students of color. Young people’s very first interactions with law enforcement increasingly occur at schools. Such interactions can be positive, but they can also be a ...


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    https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/06/05/a-tragic-killing-in-minneapolis-prompts-districts.html
     
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    Denver Public School board members seek removal of police officers from schools by 2021

    Two members of the Denver school board on Friday called for the removal of police officers from the city’s public schools by 2021, saying law enforcement personnel not only are unnecessary on campuses, but detrimental to students of color. The push by Denver Board of Education vice president Jennifer Bacon and board secretary Tay Anderson — in the form of a resolution to end Denver Public Schools’ contract with the Denver Police Department — comes as the nightly demonstrations for racial justice and police reform continue downtown in the wake of the George Floyd killing. The resolution looks likely to ...


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    https://www.greeleytribune.com/2020/06/06/denver-public-schools-police-resource-officers/
     
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    Teachers Union Calls For Disbanding LA School Police Department

    For decades, the Los Angeles Unified School District has commanded its own, independent police force — one of the largest school police departments in the nation. But the district’s powerful teachers union may soon call to dismantle the L.A. School Police Department. The board of directors for United Teachers Los Angeles recently voted 35-2 to call for stripping down the L.A. School Police Department. The policy proposal must win a vote of another body of UTLA members before it becomes the union’s official stance. UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl announced the incremental, but significant step on the steps of City Hall ...


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    School Board President Gloria Reyes backs removal of police from Madison schools

    After a years-long effort by activists to remove police from Madison high schools — a move which just got the support of the teachers union — Madison School Board President Gloria Reyes said Tuesday she is switching her stance and now supports pulling officers from the city’s four main high schools. In a statement, Reyes said she will recommend the School Board “incorporate a strategy of options to remove School Resource Officers (SROs) from our school buildings.” “Today, I see an opportunity for change, and reinventing our approach so that we continue to achieve our goal of providing safe, welcoming ...


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    Pull Chicago police from CPS schools and use that $33 million on mental health services instead, activists and elected leaders say

    Since the police killing of George Floyd, some school districts, including Minneapolis' and Portland's, have announced plans to discontinue the use of local officers in schools.


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    Teachers union board calls for scaling back school police at LAUSD campuses, sparking debate

    Sarah Djato, a 16-year-old at Dorsey High in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles, said that when a fight broke on her campus last year, school police responded with pepper spray that hit her friends on the way to class. It was a moment that helped shape her impassioned calls to remove police from public schools. “There are many other ways to take care of situations like fights that happen on our campuses,” Djato, a member of advocacy group LA Students Deserve, said during a Monday, June 8, press conference with Black Lives Matter and labor leaders, “like restorative justice, ...


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    https://www.dailynews.com/2020/06/0...ool-police-at-lausd-campuses-sparking-debate/
     
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    LA teachers union board calls to defund school police

    The board of directors for the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles union announced a 35-2 vote late last week to “eliminate the LA school police budget and redirect those funds” to community schools with higher numbers of black students and social supports like mental health workers and counselors, according to a union spokesperson. The move requires approval from the union’s 250-member house of representatives before becoming an official position. Still, the announcement drew immediate opposition from school police union representatives — one of whom said the teachers union’s position, if realized, would put students at risk — and is sure ...


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    https://www.policeone.com/school-sa...lls-to-defund-school-police-M90UFE6Il8WY6DzJ/