After shooting, Natomas school district asks city to restore campus police officers

Sacramento Bee ^ | April 16, 2026 | By Jennah Pendleton

[artichokegrower]

In the wake of a fatal on-campus shooting, leaders of the Natomas Unified School District are asking the city of Sacramento to again provide school resource officers.

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[artichokegrower]

Research has shown that school-based police have been marginally successful in preventing some violence on campuses, but their presence doesn’t prevent school shootings and is linked to disproportionate discipline of Black and disabled students

Interesting here in that two black students each brought guns to the campus and one ends up being shot to death. My local California school district got rid of the school resource officers as they were deemed to be discriminatory against the Latino students. Immediately after they were removed a Latino student stabbed another Latino student to death on campus.

[Sacajaweau]

You need to build smart schools...cameras in the halls and pocket doors so you can isolate an area...and get the kids the hell out of there...

[Sacajaweau]

No reason you can’t have 24/7 monitoring...such a cheap way to go....double doored entrances, electronic pass card.

[hanamizu]

“...disproportionate discipline of Black and disabled students”

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It’s important for people to understand that ‘disabled students’ in this context isn’t referring to blind kids or kids in wheelchairs.

Any kid with an IEP (Individual Education Program) is counted as ‘disabled’, you know, a kid who acts/is crazy. The law requires districts to teach them to be educated in the least restrictive way possible. That means they spend a lot of time in regular classrooms with regular kids. but of course taking up 90% of the teacher’s time.

The 280 pound ‘disabled kid’ who beat a teacher’s aide for taking away his game boy is now suing the district because he didn’t get the education his IEP promised.

It’s a crazy world.

[Seruzawa]

The people who pushed the officers out need to be prosecuted for abetting murder.

[Mark]

Sometimes it is easier to go with Civil lawsuits rather than criminal.