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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What did she say that wasn't true, though? I'm white, and I know that white privilege is real. It must be effing exhausting to deal with endless Not All White Peopling when you're trying to get problems addressed.

And please don't start with how you have to be patient and let white people just eventually come around through gentle disagreement and whatnot. POC have been trying that since Jamestown, and it hasn't worked yet. It seems long past time to call BS BS. [/quote]

I haven't seen them post any evidence that the SROs in Arlington are in any way a problem. The ones I've met in the MSs and HSs have been very dedicated to helping kids and have mostly been minorities themselves.

The AEM folks post all these articles about SRO abuse from other places (mostly in the South), then post articles about disproportionate discipline for minority students in Arlington -- which is run by teachers and administrators, not SROs. I haven't seen anything about student arrests. They are conflating things in an inappropriate way -- a lot of this was happening during the Parisa campaign, by the way -- and its bad for a number of reasons. It puts the focus on SROs, which may not be the problem, and prevents us from diagnosing whatever the real problem may be. [/quote]

I really did not appreciate how they slimed the ACPD in that campaign. The few actual Arlington cases cited were not presented fairly at all.

Also, FWIW, many of the Arlington SROs are people of color, including the Captain in charge. https://arlingtonva.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/10/SROFactsheet.pdf[/quote]

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