Posted on 02/16/2018 3:42:51 PM PST by smileyface
Nikolas Cruz was a known threat. Known by the administrators of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. It’s a clear case where a known dangerous student was not reported to the police. Why?
Because back in 2013, the Broward County School Board adopted a program where they don’t relay information to police about troubled students.
NPR reported in Fla. School District Trying To Curb School-To-Prison Pipeline;
It’s a move away from so-called “zero tolerance” policies that require schools to refer even minor misdemeanors to the police. Critics call it a “school to prison pipeline.”
Under a new program adopted by the Broward County School District, non-violent misdemeanors — even those that involve alcohol, marijuana or drug paraphernalia — will now be handled by the schools instead of the police.
Cruz was banned from carrying a backpack at school after bullets were found in his backpack. Cruz was expelled from MSD last year after a fight with his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend.
Non-violent misdemeanors? Even so, red flags were flying.
Again, the Broward County School Board has an official policy requiring that they don’t tell the police about non-violent incidents with troubled youth.
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Not a single dude on that board. Not one. Just an observation.
Check out who is on the school board. You’ll have your answer as to why.
From The American Spectator, July 15, 2013: How a Miami School Crime Cover-Up Policy Led to Trayvon Martin’s Death:
The February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martion might never have happened if school officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as school disciplinary infractions. Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigation explain why Martin was not arrested when caught at school with stolen jewelry in October 2011 or with marijuana in February 2012. Instead, the teenager was suspended from school, the last time just days before he was shot dead by George Zimmerman.
I'm repeating the link for the internal affairs investigation, because I had to go to the Wayback Machine to get it (the original link is gone).
-PJ
Thanks. It makes me feel good that I can still remember stuff like that. I may be old, but my brain is still functioning...at least on past events. Don’t ask me what I had for supper last night though.
Ridiculous, isn’t it?
Then again, the same government that forced banks to make bad loans to minorities turned around when they defaulted and accused the same banks of making loans that could never be repaid...
I grew up in the area were this school is located. It is comparable to Los Angeles in its liberalism. I moved away from there when my son was entering middle school because it was infested with gangs.
The problem would appear to be that the BCSB didn't tell police about overtly violent incidents with this troubled troubled youth.
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