DUH!
Posted on 02/20/2018 3:51:01 AM PST by servo1969
"We're not compromising school safety. We're really saving the lives of kids," boasted Michaelle Valbrun-Pope, executive director of Student Support Initiatives for Broward County Public Schools, in August 2017.
Valbrun-Pope was referring to what an article by Jeffrey Benzing in Public Source calls the "Broward County Solution." As Benzing relates, Broward County used to lead the state of Florida in sending students to the state's juvenile justice system. County leaders responded with a perfectly progressive solution: "lower arrests by not making arrests."
Authorities agreed to treat twelve different misdemeanor offenses as school-related issues, not criminal ones. The results impressed the people who initiated the program. Arrests dropped from more than a thousand in 2011-2012 to less than four hundred just four years later.
One particular motivation behind programs like Broward County's was the pressure from multiple sources to reduce the statistical disparity between black and Hispanic student arrests on one hand and white and Asian student arrests on the other.
By virtue of his name alone, Nikolas de Jesús Cruz, the adopted son of Lynda and Roger Cruz, became a statistical Hispanic. As such, authorities at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland had every reason not to report his troubling and likely criminal behavior to the police.
According to a source who spoke to the Miami Herald, Cruz had been suspended from Stoneman Douglas High for fighting and also for being caught with bullets in his backpack. This was apparently at least one of the reasons why administrators reportedly emailed a warning to teachers against allowing Cruz on the campus with a backpack. He was later expelled for reasons that have not been disclosed, but he was apparently not arrested.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
In effect, the families of the dead students supported all those entities and thus the policies. In effect the families paid for the freedom of all the orhers
School boards looking at race and nationality have contributed to this problem. Turning a blind eye and applying the rules to everyone would help. NAACP and others won’t allow that though.
Absolutely, these students paid with their lives for this racist illegal sanctuary policy installed in their school.
I hope the Broward County School Board attorneys are sweating Bullets right now.
“In Ius Voco Spurius” —Sue the Bastards!
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This whole Ant-Gun Campaign is a shiny object to distract from the real problem - bureaucrats who don’t want to deal with real problems.
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No. IMO, the *real* problem is local LEFTISTS whom believe themselves ‘above the fray’, setting up ILLEGAL process(es) to skirt the Law.
Everyone whom supported, from the START, from city board on down, should be rounded up for dereliction of duty, aiding/abetting, RICO a/o anything else you can throw the book at to stick.
As they sought to skirt the law, they should all be held personally liable for the outcome and not able to hide behind ‘govt immunity’.
So, according to the “Broward County Solution”, what happens to a WHITE kid who causes a little trouble?
We now know that blacks and Hispanics are to be given a wide berth and to lower the arrest rates by lowering arrests.
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“We’re not compromising school safety. We’re really saving the lives of kids,” said Michaelle Valbrun-Pope, executive director of Student Support Initiatives for Broward County Public Schools.
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“I wish we could talk about this three years from now,” said Chief George Brown, who heads the district’s safety department. “You’ll see in a good way that it’s starting to be reduced.”
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Parents of the victims should bring a class action lawsuit for BIG $$$ against ALL involved in those stupid policies.
Just F’n WOW !
17 dead kids blood spilled for Broward Co progressivism.
“This is probably worth a few segments on Fox“
Too late,they already blamed the FBI.
The FBI is guilty too but they are far from the first level of defense of this type of tragedy.
There are levels.
A female student interviewed on ABC Good Morning America ( !!!!!) this AM clearly stated that Nikolas was a student full of trouble.
Yet, either none of those kids had the guts to ‘squeal’ or ‘snitch’ on him or they knew that the school system wouldn’t pay any attention.
NOW-—all of us with guns are ‘to blame’ for this kid’s actions. The girl clearly stated that when they knew about the shooting happening, without any information as to who the shooter was, “they ALL knew it was Nikolas”.
I have posted for 5 days that the failure of today’s citizens -—young or old-—— about problem people is the root cause for all this trouble. In the inner cities, a triple murder can occur at high noon in broad daylight with 300 witnesses and ‘nobody knows nuffin’.
IF these policies are prevalent in the entire national school system, then THAT must change.
IIRC, there already was a big scandal a few years back about the head of school police in Miami getting busted for his ‘fantastic’ numbers regarding lower crime in the schools. He was UNDER charging crimes & in many cases, not charging at all. He was fired, IIRC.
When a kid is attending school for 12 years & sees that there are NO CONSEQUENCES for their misbehavior-—what do you expect? We train our dogs better than a whole nation full of kids!!! We have literally trained these kids in a mannere that tells them they can look the other way or just ignore things, and then they decide that all of the adults who have guns are to blame.
I personally refuse to take any blame. My family has had guns for longer than I am alive-—over 80 years. NEVER had any problem with owning guns. NEVER had the police called to our residence over 39 times. NEVER had any of our family members moved from one school to another. NEVER had any of our family EXPELLED from school.
How many lights have to go on flash at the schools??
How many bells have to ring & ring & ring?
How many SIGNALS does the school system need to ID & properly treat a troubled kid?
The kids who didn’t complain enough to get this solved BEFORE 2-14-18 and the family who ‘took him him’ are going to have nightmares over this for the rest of their lives.
The FBI has it’s own set of problems that should result in firings without pensions for those involved. AGAIN-—There has to be consequences for failure to act -—for everybody involved. Apparently the ‘See Something—Say Something’ doensn’t apply to the school systems. Massive System Failure.
We had a couple of troublemakers in school when I was a kid. They got punished, and I don’t mean moved elsewhere. The schools ere allowed to apply discipline in those days. Perhaps that wasn’t as wrong as today’s Dr. Spock Snowflakes seem to think.
The fault lies with the school system that exists today & the culture of “don’t snitch” in general.
A number of California school districts voted to do exactly that. Arm the teachers.
YESTERDAY—”Gov Jerry Brown” signed a law passed by the California Legislature which FORBIDS anyone to use a GUN to stop a shooting incident on school campus.
He is forbidding any school employee to be armed to protect the kids.
And people wonder why so many are fleeing Calif.
I suspect the reason for his being expelled is at least as damming if not more so than what they admitted to or they would disclose it.
You don’t expell a kid unless you feel he is a probem of some kind. It seems rather obvous given what they admitted to knowing about him. Yet thoses thing we’re not the reason enough for his expultion, or they would have done it long before.
This whole case is rather fishy in regard to the school’s behavior and what they told teachers but apparently not the police. Its As if they were attempting internal enforcement, although clearly without the knowlage to do it right. ( No locked doors or armed teachers)
I suspect if these kids ever find out the whole story they will be pissed at their school and local leaders. Maybe that’s why they are not saying anything.
That sounds like we're doing a pretty good job; with 99.995% surviving.
Oh; BTW; about 3,300 future American citizens ALSO died that day:
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