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| Chicago school board votes to remove uniformed police officers from schools |
| 2024-02-23 |
| [FoxNews] The Chicago Board of Education voted on Thursday to end its contract with Chicago police and remove uniformed officers from the city’s schools. The vote came at the end of a nearly eight-hour school board meeting in which teachers, students and elected city officials spoke. The battle on whether to keep the uniformed police officers in the 39 city schools where they continue to patrol, out of 634 schools, has been going on since police were assigned to protect the schools in 1991. Some students told school board members that police in the schools scare them. FOX 32 in Chicago reported that when the board cast their votes, it was in favor of a new "Whole School Safety Policy," which eliminates the use of school resource officers. The official plan will be presented to board members for final approval over the summer, and if approved, it goes into effect next school year. "We want to be clear that many schools will still employ physical safety personnel like security guards at points of entry, and crossing guards and Safe Passage workers to ensure students can get to and from school safely," the board said in the letter obtained by the station. "Some schools will also continue to use physical security tools such as security cameras or metal detectors. Furthermore, each school will still maintain a relationship with their local Chicago Police Department ‘School Sergeant,’ a position assigned to each police district to provide safety support to schools." The board also reportedly said in the letter the funding used for uniformed officers in schools will be reallocated for "alternative safety positions, resources, and interventions," like restorative justice coordinators, youth intervention specialists, wrap-around supports and mentoring programs, and more. Related: Chicago Board of Education: 2010-05-09 Metra boss Phil Pagano's suicide a repeating pageant for Illinois Chicago Board of Education: 2009-11-16 CPS board chairman Michael Scott's death ruled suicide Chicago Board of Education: 2009-11-16 President of Chicago Board of Education Reportedly Kills Himself |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #13 Anyone have a dead pool on which city falls first? Other than the argument that many already have; I mean straight tits-up no doubter interstate choked with refugees. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-23 15:54 |
| #12 If your agenda is a national police force and disarming the American people, you need the never-ending scenes of violence for the daily propaganda broadcasts. Cloward-Piven is about overwhelming the system and frightening the sheep into accepting anything to make it stop! When Big Mike is unveiled as the rescuing Savior with Barry always poised in the background, the useful idiots will clamor for that, never having the reasoning skills to recognize that they and their ilk are the ones behind the Puppet Show that orchestrated the mess they will claim they can clean up! Our modern crop of "citizens" are the very definition of "rube". |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-02-23 14:03 |
| #11 ^i was in high school in the early 1950's and it was safe. we were taught civics and the 3 r's. there was also vigilante justice rendered by my dad and uncles. i had a happy peaceful childhood. IMO LBJ and affirmative action started us down hill. affirmative action is racist. it gives a color a preference. there should be no hyphenated americans just americans. |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2024-02-23 12:13 |
| #10 When I was in high school back in the 60s, it was unimaginable to have the police in my high school. There was certainly no need, and no one would ever have suggested it. But I do realize that those were VERY different times. |
| Posted by: Tom 2024-02-23 11:37 |
| #9 Good and hard Chicago. Good and hard. |
| Posted by: EMS Artifact 2024-02-23 10:29 |
| #8 This will have a happy ending |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-02-23 09:37 |
| #7 You defunded police in Chicago proper, how's that working out? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-02-23 08:42 |
| #6 Again - how many hijackings have there been since the post 9/11 security measures were put in place at airports? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-23 07:31 |
| #5 /\ Empty schools can become illegal migrant sanctuaries. You do see how that works don't you ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-23 07:14 |
| #4 Chicago high school students walk out of class over gun violence By Bill Hutchinson Video by Jessie DiMartino and Cristina Corujo December 19, 2022, 3:38 PM Students at a Chicago high school staged a classroom walkout Monday afternoon to protest gun violence just days after a shooting near their campus left two teenagers dead and two others wounded. Students at Benito Juarez Community Academy in the Pilsen neighborhood on the city's southwest side, left their classrooms and gathered around a makeshift memorial where Friday's shooting occurred. The students called on city leaders to bolster security on their campus and crack down on gangs. Many of the students released balloons into the air as they held a vigil for the victims. "I want Benito Juarez to be safer because, honestly, I felt like this situation wouldn't have happened if it wasn't a lot of gang activity around the school," one of the student protest organizers, Kiya, told ABC Chicago station WLS-TV. "It's scary for people like me, who are not gang-affiliated, that have to go to school every day and then wonder, 'Dang, am I going to get shot?'" |
| Posted by: Shoth Gratch3103 2024-02-23 07:10 |
| #3 The Plan: We simply need more mass shooting in order to push gun control. What better place than the murder capital of the United States? So we disarm law-abiding students but not thugs and gang-bangers who ignore the law anyway and then blame the guns. /sarc |
| Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas 2024-02-23 07:10 |
| #2 Welcome Mass School Shooters. Chicago wants insure you have a great Kill count to re-enforce our demands for Gun Control of HONEST Self Defending Citizens. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2024-02-23 07:09 |
| #1 Some students told school board members that police in the schools scare them. "I'm afraid to bring my gun to school."? Or is it "Some of these cops are white."? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-23 05:43 |