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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    Cops On Campuses Are Supposed To Keep Kids Safe, But May Do More Harm Than Good, Study Finds

    In 2018, the Florida Legislature passed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act with the intention of curbing school violence following the Parkland shooting. The law promised either a law enforcement officer, armed staff, or armed private security at all public schools. A year or so later, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill giving Florida teachers the option of carrying guns in their classrooms. The volatile issue drew students, teachers and gun-control advocates to the Capitol during the 2019 session. Now, in 2020, a new study from civil rights and social justice organizations suggests the ballooning law enforcement ...


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    They arrested me for playing basketball: A personal argument in favor of defunding the police

    My tidy bedroom at 1784 Devonshire Road, on the northside of Columbus, OH., is where I learned the craft of creating Magic through my imagination. My bedroom was my ark, a planet within a universe of physical, verbal and emotional abuse that lodged inside my home. Upholding my imagination were a couple of books, and the stacks of King, XXL, Slam, and The Source magazines that were neatly stacked inside of my closet or sprawled across my bed. I studied bylines just as much as I poured over the feature stories. When creating Magic inside my ark, I attached faces ...


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    They arrested me for playing basketball: A personal argument in favor of defunding the police

    But the judge played on my mother's ignorance by suggesting that she put me on house arrest, and If I were to go outside, she should call the police and have me arrested ... The enthusiastic ...


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    Urbana Middle School SRO says her job is misunderstood

    Michelle Robinson has nearly a decade of experience being a patrol officer at the Urbana Police Department. However, working as a school resource officer has a different pace. Robinson takes time to get to know the students at Urbana Middle School. One can call her an SRO, but to students, she's "mom officer." Robinson smirked and said she takes on a mom role at her school. She has at least a year of experience being an SRO, but her job is under scrutiny. In the wake of protests against police misconduct, local activists want to see school resource officers removed ...


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    Police in Schools Are ‘Detrimental to Students’: Report

    For some parents, teachers, and students, having a police officer inside a school facility can bring a sense of relief. But for others—and as a newly released Citizens for Juvenile Justice and Strategies for Youth report has found—the mere presence of police in Massachusetts schools has been deemed “detrimental to students” because police disproportionately target Black and brown students, the Milford Daily News covered. “The presence of police in schools has a harmful and detrimental effect on young people, particularly young people of color,” Leon Smith, the executive director of Citizens for Juvenile Justice, said. “It leads to an increase ...


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    Dane County school districts reevaluating role of police in schools

    Amid a national conversation on policing and race, Dane County school districts are taking a closer look at the work officers do in their schools but so far have not gone as far as the Madison School District and removed them entirely. Of the 16 districts completely or predominantly within the county, 12 had school resource officers, or SROs, at the beginning of the 2019-20 school year. As of last week, at least nine of them had either decided to continue their existing SRO programs or were in the process of working with their local police departments to make changes ...


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    Why are kids so messed up? Murphy thinks cops in school do it

    Police officers stationed in schools, Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told a conference at the University of Connecticut last week, are why there is a "school-to-prison pipeline" that targets Black and Hispanic students. So he has introduced legislation to forbid federal funds from paying for such police. "All across our country," Murphy said, "kids are being arrested, sent into the school-to-prison pipeline for ordinary misbehaviors often connected to their disabilities or childhood traumas, and that one negative interaction, which ends up with an arrestable offense, often leads kids down a path from which they can never return. … “In Connecticut, ...


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    Black, Hispanic student arrest, citation numbers in schools disproportionate to enrollment, Elgin cops say

    Elgin police statistics show a steady drop in the number of juvenile arrests made at city high schools and middle schools over the past five years, but they also show a disproportionate number of the cases involving Hispanic and Black students. Police Chief Ana Lalley shared the numbers with the Elgin City Council Wednesday as members weigh whether they will renew a $500,000 contract under which the police department provides police officers to serve as student resource officers at District U-46 schools in Elgin. The council has traditionally approved the contract with little discussion but this year some members asked ...


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    Police in schools may not make kids any safer

    Schools in the United States are trying many new things to protect their students: masks, virtual classes and even shorter days. But some activists are pushing for another change that they say will keep children safer: expelling the police. In the past 30 years, school resource officers, or SROs, have been placed in thousands of American schools. The job description varies by school district or law enforcement agency, but the Justice Department, which funds many SRO programs, describes SROs as “sworn law enforcement officers responsible for safety and crime prevention in schools.” They are supposed to be vigilant protectors, defending ...


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    A Wisconsin teen's death behind bars reveals how children get trapped in the justice system -- and how we can stop the cycle

    On the night of Dec. 10, 2017, paramedics tried to save 16-year-old Maricella Chairez at the Racine County Juvenile Detention Center, but it was too late: The last window of opportunity to save her had closed. Over the past year, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel interviewed leading experts in juvenile justice and mental health to identify how authorities responsible for Maricella's care could have possibly changed her trajectory, beginning with her first trip to jail, through her last breath. These ideas hold promise for other children in similar situations. A 2017 census found 27,635 children nationwide in youth jails and prisons, ...


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    Webster police chief sees value of police in schools

    After a recent online Statehouse forum focusing on alleged pitfalls of having police resource officers in schools, Police Chief Michael Shaw said he is a strong supporter of policing in schools. In the forum, his department was mentioned by one participant, a Webster mother, who falsely alleged that her then 12-year-old daughter was arrested in 2013 for not bringing a homework assignment to a Webster school. In a social media posting on Facebook, Chief Shaw responded to the allegation that was reported in a Telegram & Gazette article and noted the child was not arrested and was only later summoned ...


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    Families say incidents show pattern of unfair punishment for girls of color

    Shocking video showed 6-year-old Kaia Rolle being hauled away from her school by a police officer, after she kicked a teacher during a tantrum in an incident last year. Body camera footage captured it all, including Rolle’s pleas to “let me go” and insisting “I don’t want to put handcuffs on.” Nevertheless, the first grader was placed in handcuffs and taken to a juvenile detention center to be booked and fingerprinted in September 2019, according to Rolle’s grandmother Meralyn Kirkland. “They took me in this room, they said she wasn't finished yet,” Kirkland told ABC News about picking her up ...

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    Families say incidents show pattern of unfair punishment for girls of color

    Shocking video showed 6-year-old Kaia Rolle being hauled away from her school by a police officer, after she kicked a teacher during a tantrum in an incident last year. Body camera footage captured it all, including Rolle’s pleas to “let me go” and insisting “I don’t want to put handcuffs on.” Nevertheless, the first grader was placed in handcuffs and taken to a juvenile detention center to be booked and fingerprinted in September 2019, according to Rolle’s grandmother Meralyn Kirkland. “They took me in this room, they said she wasn't finished yet,” Kirkland told ABC News about picking her up ...


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    Ames board committee discusses school resource officers' role

    After Ames school district administrators proposed hiring a second school resource officer last year, some teachers asked the school board how that decision was consistent with the district's commitment to equity. "As we sat down as a group to address them, we felt that we didn't really have good answers," board member Monic Behnken said. The board's equity committee members reconvened in February and decided that developing a policy related to school resource officers would be their top priority. Now, the committee is reviewing research on school resource officers and is in the early stages of gathering feedback from staff ...


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    Ames board committee discusses school resource officers' role

    After Ames school district administrators proposed hiring a second school resource officer last year, some teachers asked the school board how that decision was consistent with the district's commitment to equity. "As we sat down as a group to address them, we felt that we didn't really have good answers," board member Monic Behnken said. The board's equity committee members reconvened in February and decided that developing a policy related to school resource officers would be their top priority. Now, the committee is reviewing research on school resource officers and is in the early stages of gathering feedback from staff ...


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    School and police lawsuit dismissed but will be refiled

    A lawsuit involving Key West Police officers arresting and attempting to handcuff an 8-year-old student has been dismissed on a technicality, but attorneys for the boy’s mother plan to refile the lawsuit. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit because the court did not have proof that fees in the case had been paid. The attorney has paid the fee and does have proof, he said. He plans to submit the paperwork to the court and have the case reinstated, said attorney Devon Jacob, who is representing the 8-year-old boy’s mother, Bianca Di Gennerro. Di Gennaro filed the suit against the ...


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    Northwestern Students Clash with Officers Over Demands to Abolish Campus Police

    A Halloween night demonstration led by Northwestern University (NU) students demanding that the school disband its police department ended in violence, according to police. The protest in downtown Evanston was initiated by a group of approximately 150 protesters, including NU students who are part of a group called NU Community Not Cops, who have been protesting daily for weeks, reports WGN9. According to a statement from Northwestern University Graduate Workers (NUGW), Evanston Police, with aid from the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System, who are trained in tactical crowd control and have been assisting EPD with protest management, arrived at the ...


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    Webster police chief sees value of police in schools

    In the forum, his department was mentioned by one participant, a Webster mother, who explained how her then 12-year-old daughter in 2013 had a contentious experience with a teacher that began over a homework assignment in a Webster school. In a social media posting on Facebook, Chief Shaw responded to the mother's comments that were reported in a Telegram & Gazette article and noted the child was not arrested, but was later summoned to court because she failed to comply with a teacher's order to leave the classroom because she was causing a disturbance. Having officers in schools helps students ...


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    Council members want to end MCPS school resource officer program

    With backing from student activist groups and the local teachers union, two Montgomery County Council members on Tuesday introduced a bill to prohibit the state’s largest school district from having police officers stationed in its buildings. The legislation, co-sponsored by Council Members Will Jawando and Hans Riemer, would pull resource officers currently employed at each of Montgomery County Public Schools’ 26 high schools. The council members pointed to data that show school resource officers, often referred to as SROs, arrest Black and Hispanic students at a higher rate than white students, and the long-term effects of those arrests on students’ ...


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    Some Counties Push to Remove Police From Schools — But Who Has the Authority to Make the Call?

    Jason Melara is a former Montgomery County Public Schools student who frequently found himself in traumatic situations with police officers stationed at his high school. “On many occasions, I felt obligated to ask for help from [school resource officers], but it was the worst thing I could have done,” he said. “I am here to give my testimony, and to summarize in a few words the hell that I had to go through during my time as a student in Montgomery County,” Melara said as he shared his story, translated from Spanish to English, to reporters at a news conference ...


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    Senate panel gives warm hug to bill preventing young kids from being arrested

    The bill would create a law named after a 7-year old girl traumatically arrested by police. With 7-year-old Kaia Rolle, her mother and grandmother watching, a Senate committee approved a bill named for her Tuesday that seeks to prevent what happened to her in 2019. Kaia had been arrested at her Orlando school, cuffed, placed alone in the back of an Orlando Police cruiser, then booked and fingerprinted in September of that year, sparking international outrage. Democratic Sen. Randolph Bracy of Ocoee, already a criminal justice reformer, and with a daughter of his own that age, made it his mission ...


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    Still named in the lawsuit are police officers Michael Malgrat, Kenneth Waite and Carter Sims, the City of Key West and the Key West Police Department.



    Judge dismisses lawsuit against Monroe County school employees


    A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against a handful of Monroe County School District employees who were named in a suit filed on behalf of an 8-year-old Gerald Adams Elementary School student who was arrested and nearly handcuffed in 2018. The lawsuit against the City of Key West, the Key West Police Department and three police officers involved remained in place as of Wednesday, according to the suit and the school district. Judge K. Michael Moore’s ruling on Tuesday dismisses the case against teacher Ashley Henriquez, Gerald Adams School former Assistant Principal and current Principal Kyle Sheer and former ...


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