02-18-2021, 07:13 PM
rjmacs wrote:
[quote=vision63]
I doesn't work TO YOU!. Some people NEED to be incarcerated. Do you live in the hood?
What I meant when I said it doesn't work is that it doesn't end up making schools safe. School violence and crime isn't now, and never has been, a problem you can arrest your way out of. You can try to expel your way out of it, and some schools have. That means that kids who get in trouble early get tossed into the street with nothing to do but get in more trouble. Some think that's fine, if it keeps schools safer. But the reality is, they still live in the neighborhood, and they still cause trouble for the 'good kids' outside the school building.
Do you know of examples where having MORE cops doing MORE police work in schools has made students safe? Where were these programs, and if they worked so well, why were they ended? I've never even heard of this, much less seen it in my community (which is broadly low-income and majority non-White).
I agree that some people need to be separated from school, especially if they demonstrate an inability to abstain from violence. You don't need cops in school everyday for that, any more than you need a cop to stand inside every bodega and 7-11 all day every day to keep customers safe. It's the wrong answer to a real problem.
It made my schools safer. That's a fact. I watched them with my own eyes break up fights and diffuse tense situations. There are some bad people out there that aren't interested in being nice. They do what they do because they don't get punished. There is very little consequence. DA's aren't interested in holding anyone to account. If they do, they get unelected.
It has everything to do with the communities surrounding the schools. If they're dysfunctional, then so will the schools embedded within them.