Chicago Removing Police From Schools. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Jazz Shaw
5–6 minutes
If you've been paying any attention at all to the news for the past couple of years, you've no doubt heard about the increased levels of crime and violence in Chicago, along with so many other large, blue cities. At the same time, we've seen a disturbing rise in school shootings and other criminal activity in our public schools, with the Windy City's public schools additionally being overrun by the children of illegal migrants. Rushing to the rescue this week was Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. His brilliant plan to address these concerns involves keeping a campaign promise he made while running for office. He's going to pull the police (school resource officers, or SROs) from Chicago's schools and find a "different, comprehensive whole school safety policy." Given the current conditions in the city, this idea is clearly far less popular than the mayor believes. (Washington Examiner)
Chicago is advancing an effort to scrap a $10.3 million program that places police officers in Chicago Public Schools and direct their full removal by the 2024-2025 academic year.
Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson is backing a measure to remove school resource officers and find a different plan to “create a comprehensive whole school safety policy” without them. The new policy is being requested from Chicago Public Schools by June 27 for the Chicago Board of Education to tally a final vote.
“The pattern is the same in cities across the country — activists push to get rid of school resource officers. Parents, staff, and students disagree and voice their support to keep them,” Erika Sanzi, Director of Outreach for Parents Defending Education, told the Washington Examiner. “Obviously, a police officer assigned to a school needs to be the right fit and excel in de-escalation. But removing police from schools in areas where violence has soared seems like another example of putting ideology ahead of what’s best for students and communities.”Keep in mind that this is the same Mayor who recently announced that Chicago would be pulling the ShotSpotter crime detection system out of the city at the end of a recent nine-month extension of the company's contract. The police unions objected to that as well, but the Mayor has turned a deaf ear toward them. At a time when crime is rising in all sectors, Johnson seems determined to do everything he can to stop anyone from preventing criminal activity.
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