Posted on 06/01/2022 7:25:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District in Texas has its own police department, complete with four officers, a detective and security staff who patrol the campus and its entrances. This didn’t prevent a gunman from killing 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School last week.
“The research is clear that more police and hardening schools doesn’t work,” said Patrick Bresette, executive director of the Children’s Defense Fund of Texas.
This debate over school police isn’t new, though. Organizers have long pointed out the negative impacts of police in schools: Black and Latino children are more likely to be criminalized by school officers, and there are no sweeping federal laws that regulate the police use of force on students. In the last 15 years, police in schools across the country have been reported as punishing students for common childhood behaviors such as talking back to teachers and fighting.
Advocates say that discussions about school policing must acknowledge racial disparities. Schools with larger Black and Latino populations are more likely to have police officers in the halls, metal detectors and security cameras, making the students more likely to be stunned, assaulted or pepper-sprayed by police. And police often criminalize Black children for conduct considered common among kids — like mouthing off or fighting at school.
Experts say ramping up police presence at schools will disproportionately impact Black and Latino students. The University at Albany and RAND study also found that school officers’ presence leads to more suspensions, expulsions, police referrals, chronic absences and arrests for students, and Black students are two times more likely than whites to experience these consequences.
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Just another BS propaganda piece from another of the main stream propaganda agencies. Responsible people around individuals such as these psychopaths need to be proactive with regard to their access to guns, schools, etc. From my limited knowledge of these situations, it appears the individuals gave enough signals of mental/emotions problems that something should have been done to help them/society.
You just knew that since the perp was not white the left would bring race in the side door. For them, race is their favored wedge issue and they use it for every situation where their primary narrative is brought into question.
You don't need police, although some police have done well.
What you need are responders who are:
1. Present
2. Armed, and
3. Willing to engage.
Israelis themselves joke that barbed wire is the National Flower of Israel. . .those kids in that picture seem nonchalant about it all although I do cringe seeing the teacher squatting down there—note the toddler right on the slide next to him ready to reach over and squeeze the trigger.
First of all, police should be around to protect the people in the schools, not to arrest the students!
The fact that school administrators call the police to deal with students talking back to teachers and what have you is a misuse of police time and should be treated like a false call to the police.
Second, when there are problems with black students, it is usually *not* a problem with black students in general but with a small number of black students. Schools need to deal *effectively* with the small number of students who cause problems, and stop allowing that small number of students to ruin education for the rest of them. (As an added benefit, school scores might go up when the students who want to learn are able to do so without disruption.)
Running is an effective way-maybe the best way—to survive a school shooting or any mass shooting. All 4 of my teens ran cross country and track in high school and would be out of there in a hot second. . .
locked doors is a good start.
I have seen absolutely nothing that discusses the qualifications of the “school” police. Are they trained as are regular police - firearms, confrontation, etc. , or are they trained as social workers with few/no physical skills.
Why does a separate department even exist?
You don’t necessarily need more police, if you hire police willing to get into harm’s way instead of waiting around...
Marxists always refer to “studies”.
What utter BS!
They are usually at the bottom of the police barrel.
let me guess
patrick is pro gun banning and confiscation
The trigger guard is covered by the holster, and the holster is a level II retention holster that requires the deactivation of a retention latch before the weapon can be withdrawn from the holster.
It's safe from curious hands, although I'm sure even at that age they're taught not to touch.
No 9f course not. Sheesh. Liberal think = “we must prevent law abiding citizens from being armed, prevent cops from responding, and make sure all doors to schools/gun free zones are wide open whenever there is a perp in the area” “oh, and sue the gun manufacturers when the lerps take lives, while coddling the perp and giving them the lightest sentences possible, beczuse this might endear them to,the idea that we ,ove them and want the best for them so maybe they wont do what they do so often”
Satan has tried over and over to destroy the world, to destroy god and destroy morality, but it wasn’t until liberals were invented that he began having the most success.
Patrick Bresette, executive director of the Children’s Defense Fund of Texas
Expert my A$$
So, what “research” are you blathering about? Whose bum did you probe for that?
The school was not hardened. A virtue signaling lock and reinforced door don’t cut it. That was window dressing.
And, adding more coppers? What the ‘Ell for? The ones on site didn’t do anything but get kiddies out of areas not under attack and keep anyone else from attacking the DBag murdering kiddies while they stood around.
Wonder if Patrick Bresette owns any firearms...?
Of course not. More police with balls is the answer.
“Of course it doesn’t, that’s why all the super rich and politicians send THEIR KIDS to elite private schools with more armed guards than a US embassy in a hostile country.”
We and other adult family members helped to fund/enable our grandkids/nieces/nephews to attend good private high schools.
The protective side or lack of it started in the parking lots. When our grandkids attended what was a supposedly good public school, we never encountered security police when we picked up our grandkids every other Wednesday. In fact we were swarmed by other kids wanting us to help them play.
It was a total difference, when they attended private schools. If we weren’t challenged by a security guard before we got out of the parking lot, we were challenged before we went into the campus or the school office for a pass/badge or an escort.
It took a man with a gun to stop the man with the gun, he just didn’t arrive soon enough, so have men with guns waiting in the schools.
Your experts are fools.
In 40 minutes, he could have used a machete
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