'Police Do Not Belong in Our Schools.' Students Are Demanding an End to Campus Cops After the Death

[mystery-ak]

By Katie Reilly
June 5, 2020 12:26 PM EDT

Student activists across the country are calling for their schools to cut ties with police departments and remove officers from campuses in response to a national uprising against police brutality. And school leaders in Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., have already taken that step.

While debates over the role of police officers in schools have raged for years, activists say the latest high-profile examples of police violence against black people — the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky.,— have fueled the argument that police officers don’t belong in schools.

The public school board in Minneapolis voted unanimously to terminate its contract with the city’s police department on Tuesday in response to Floyd’s death. “I firmly believe that it is completely unnatural to have police in schools,” school board member Kimberly Caprini said during the meeting, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

On Thursday, the superintendent of Portland Public Schools said he was “discontinuing” the presence of school resource officers (SROs) and would increase spending on counselors and social workers, the Oregonian reported.

Advocates for police reform and racial justice are hoping more school districts will follow. “It is a huge, huge, huge moment. It feels unprecedented,” says Jonathan Stith, director of the Alliance for Educational Justice, which advocates for police-free schools.

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https://time.com/5848959/school-contracts-police/

[Idiot]

By Katie Reilly
June 5, 2020 12:26 PM EDT

Student activists across the country are calling for their schools to cut ties with police departments and remove officers from campuses in response to a national uprising against police brutality. And school leaders in Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., have already taken that step.

While debates over the role of police officers in schools have raged for years, activists say the latest high-profile examples of police violence against black people — the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky.,— have fueled the argument that police officers don’t belong in schools.

The public school board in Minneapolis voted unanimously to terminate its contract with the city’s police department on Tuesday in response to Floyd’s death. “I firmly believe that it is completely unnatural to have police in schools,” school board member Kimberly Caprini said during the meeting, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

On Thursday, the superintendent of Portland Public Schools said he was “discontinuing” the presence of school resource officers (SROs) and would increase spending on counselors and social workers, the Oregonian reported.

Advocates for police reform and racial justice are hoping more school districts will follow. “It is a huge, huge, huge moment. It feels unprecedented,” says Jonathan Stith, director of the Alliance for Educational Justice, which advocates for police-free schools.

more
https://time.com/5848959/school-contracts-police/

[HoustonSam]

Today's news seems to have a lot about calls to defund, or even close completely, police departments, and this seems to be a particular case of that impulse.

Are these police departments not the same people we are encouraged to call when we are threatened because they are "trained" to use guns, in ways that mere citizens apparently cannot be?  Do the people advocating this ending of police work actually not recognize that a consequence will be each man relying on his own armament and training (or lack of training) for protection?

If there is no longer a government function to which violent coercion is outsourced, then violent coercion will become the right of every man.  The government's ostensible monopoly on force will be repealed.

Can progressives really be stupid enough to not recognize that this idea completely invalidates another of their most cherished ideas?

[EdinVA]

Great... teach your thug kids not to lie, cheat, steal, bring drugs and guns to school and the police can leave.

[dfwgator]

Ok, then, but don't come bitchin' to me next time there's a school shooting.

[GtHawk]

Ok, then, but don't come bitchin' to me next time there's a school shooting.

Plus having police on campus really interferes with those young entrepreneurs selling drugs and those intent on sexual assaults.

[Sighlass]

And the white flight from minority public schools just continues.

Want to remove something, remove most college security and allow the students there to carry protection instead of leaving them as sitting ducks.

[DB]

Kids don't belong in their schools.

[dfwgator]

And the white flight from minority public schools just continues.

Want to remove something, remove most college security and allow the students there to carry protection instead of leaving them as sitting ducks.

The problem is eventually you run out of places to flee to,  at some point we're going to have to make a stand.

[Sighlass]

The problem is eventually you run out of places to flee to,  at some point we're going to have to make a stand.

You're right !

[Fishrrman]

dfw wrote:
"The problem is eventually you run out of places to flee to,  at some point we're going to have to make a stand."

That time may be coming sooner rather than later.
But if I was to call that "stand" a "race war", I'd likely be slapped down.
So I'm not going to call it that.

BTW, have you read this book?

This page will give you several downloadable formats:
https://archive.org/details/CivilWarIITheComingBreakupOfAmerica1996-ThomasW.Chittum

Another source (also with audiobook version):
https://archive.org/details/CivilWarTwoAudiobook

[libertybele]

Today's news seems to have a lot about calls to defund, or even close completely, police departments, and this seems to be a particular case of that impulse.

Are these police departments not the same people we are encouraged to call when we are threatened because they are "trained" to use guns, in ways that mere citizens apparently cannot be?  Do the people advocating this ending of police work actually not recognize that a consequence will be each man relying on his own armament and training (or lack of training) for protection?

If there is no longer a government function to which violent coercion is outsourced, then violent coercion will become the right of every man.  The government's ostensible monopoly on force will be repealed.

Can progressives really be stupid enough to not recognize that this idea completely invalidates another of their most cherished ideas?

They've been sold the idea that liberalism and socialism is the answer to all that ails them. The DEMS are hoping to continue the civil unrest right up until election time; mandating mail-in ballots and hoping this will all result in taking over the WH.  When they turn our Republic into a socialist entity, the progressive and die hard liberals will be crying foul once they realize that liberalism/progressivism isn't working as they had hoped. By that time, it's going to be too late.