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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 4003215" data-attributes="member: 1294">Maybe the school officials should be asked if they applied for/received safety grants for officers through the "Secure Our Schools" fed. grant program($1bil.?) or an accounting of how any funds received were spent(like in Broward Co.). The fact remains that removing officers was a widespread movement(like in Denver) after the George Floyd incident because of ideological(racial) issues(oppression/trauma/criminalization of students)There are plenty of articles detailing the removals and why they were argued for...From May 2020 through June 2022, at least 50 districts serving over 1.7 million children have ended their school policing programs or cut their budgets.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.edweek.org/leadership/which-districts-have-cut-school-policing-programs/2021/06[/URL]This article says it all..."Instead of subsidizing more police officers, we need to help schools hire more counselors, more nurses, more mental health practitioners"..."students of color are often unfairly targeted and disciplined by police in schools"..."black girls are four times more likely to be arrested than white girls. This is not simply an inequity, this is a crisis in and of itself,"...[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.police1.com/school-safety/articles/us-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-end-federal-funding-for-police-in-schools-EqjIdTFa9Uja6bWF/[/URL]Here's another one that's n interesting read...[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.idra.org/resource-center/at-what-cost-a-review-of-school-police-funding-and-accountability-across-the-u-s-south/[/URL]I won't say funding is never an issue but the real question is what has removed more school officers, funding or the widespread denial of what some kids and segments of our society are like and believe.</blockquote>

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