fulanigirl has moved#Abolition #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #BlackTwitter #PoliceInSchoolsBlack advocates have been trying to get cops out of schools for years, but much of the advocacy came to a head after the death of George Floyd. Calls to defund the police included taking the MILLIONS of dollars used to pay school resource officers and using that money to hire support personnel for the children. Look at the stats in this ACLU report https://www.aclu-wa.org/story/school-resource-officers-when-cure-worse-disease 4/6
School Resource Officers: When the Cure is Worse than the Disease
SROs, also known as Campus Resource Officers (CROs) are commissioned law enforcement officers with sworn authority to make arrests, deployed under the auspices of a need for community-oriented policing in K-12 school districts.