Posted on 02/22/2018 4:24:41 PM PST by SJackson
“Knee-jerk” reactions to school shootings exacerbate the school-to-prison pipeline in the name of school safety.
When President Donald Trump held a listening session with survivors of gun violence, their family members and the parents of murdered students on Wednesday, much of the discussion focused on ways to enhance school security. The president recommended arming teachers, while one parent suggested that undercover police officers pose as teachers and school staff. Several parents called for more security officers at schools.
There’s scant evidence that more cops and security guards on campus actually stop school shootings. There’s an abundance of evidence suggesting that more school security means more vulnerable students getting funneled at an early age into the criminal justice system.
Black children are already more likely to get arrested at school. In 2012, black children represented only 16 percent of school-aged children, but 31 percent of those arrested.
And when more cops are in school, these arrests are more likely to take place, even for minor misbehaviors. It’s a phenomenon that advocates call the school-to-prison pipeline.
“The more we add security or police forces and so on to schools, the more likely it is the students who are already at risk of being seen as potential trouble makers get swept up into the justice system or suspended and pushed out of schools,” said Aaron Kupchik, a professor at the University of Delaware, who studies this issue. “The risks are even higher for students who are already more vulnerable.”
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No problem. Just put the security in majority white schools and leave the majority black schools unguarded. I’m sure that won’t cause a problem. /sarc
I think it was Einstein that proved: S+C=J+Bk
More proof that, “vulnerable” and “at risk” equate to criminal and dangerous.
Well hell, Rebecca....Let’s just do away with all law enforcement...Then we’d have no crime...Right???
You stupid, stupid twit.....
Life is tough when you’re a liberal. Nothing is ever good.
Thus states the racist partisan media shill at HuffPo.
Right. The correct “knee-jerk” reaction is, “Ban guns!”
Who’s fault is THAT?
“More Cops In Schools Means More Black Kids In The Criminal Justice System “
And this is good.
Let’s see... intervene at an early age, head off a life of crime. Or let the little criminals keep getting away with criminal acts, and watch them branch into more violent crime as they grow.
I think I like the first option better.
Somewhere today I read the comment that these shootings don't happen at inner city schools because the kids are armed.
The author wants more dead students rather than live students who have records. Got it.
Racist libs. Black people just commit crimes huh? How about people are taught to obey the law and then do it!
Given the fact that imo the primary cause of this shooting appears to be non intervention of authorities, it's an amazing incident to use as an excuse for non intervention. Dead students, so Cruz wouldn't have a criminal record. Till he committed multiple murders. Don't mean to gloss over incompetence of authorities, also a factor.
If blacks kill each other, that the law of the jungle.
When white kids die, everyone goes in a lather of outrage and demands guns be banned.
Just don’t accuse liberals of being racist.
It stands along with (inherent) black violence, in general.
Blacks commit homicide around 7 times the rates of whites.
Broward County was at the forefront in implementing the ‘Stop the Schools to Proson Pipeline’ program. Look it up. (I may have a slightly different phrasing.....look up ‘schools to prison pipeline’). Sad, but holding criminals accountable for misdemeanors may stop them from committing worse crimes later on.
Yup, and this is small time. Chicago has similar policies, this shooting is just a long weekend.
*Prison*
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