A report of an armed suspect in a Sylmar neighborhood Monday triggered the evacuation of Sylmar Charter High School today before the man was safely taken into.
Ever since the police killing of George Floyd, awareness has been raised about defunding police, including school police.
School districts in Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle declared that they will be removing officers from their schools, and making campuses a safe place again. While that is a wonderful thing, more work needs to be done before every single student across the U.S can confidently call their school a safe place.
Having police officers on campus is an insufficient way of protecting students.
According to the New York Times, many teachers, students and school officials believe that having police on campus is a danger to students and with good reason. There have been instances where on-campus officers have assaulted students, like this instance in the Los Angeles Unified School District at Fremont High School in 2019, where police went to unnecessary means to break up a fight by using pepper spray on students.
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The ongoing debate over policing levels in Los Angeles centered on the transportation sector Thursday as Metro officials considered paying for more officers on the city’s transit system and the Los Angeles Police Department announced it would no longer send officers to minor traffic collisions.
The two discussions reflected the shifting landscape for law enforcement in L.A. at a time of intense violence and changing public safety priorities, when homicides are at a decade high but protesters’ summer calls for defunding police continue to resonate among elected officials and other leaders.
They followed a Board of Education decision two days earlier to cut a third of officers from the Los Angeles School Police Department.
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