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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm not seeing your argument. Everyone agrees that policies need to change to make them accountable. Does this mean we remove all SROs from schools? Your argument would then also imply we blanket remove our police system just because we know bad cops exist. Clearly, it doesn't make sense. What makes sense is to continue to push hard for accountability, for those who serve AND for schools to do their job and educate our children.[/quote]

That's the thing, though. The police have not initiated any changes, nor have they held bad cops accountable. They only choice left was to remove them from schools.

If MCPD had made a good faith effort to root out corruption, get bad cops off the streets, and discipline those who slip through, we would have better policy choices. But this is the policy choice left standing because the police will not govern themselves appropriately.

If they take steps to demonstrate that they can be trusted with our children, we can re-evaluate at that time. [/quote]

Fine, so take SRO out, but who steps in to control the situation when someone is completely disrupting class? Many have been asking this on the thread, but I'm not seeing an answer. Where is the accountability here? Schools have to be empowered to hold themselves accountable, so that teachers can actually teach. Otherwise we will continue seeing an exodus and more will leave, and true learning in school will be an empty shell, almost fully reduced to babysitting services.[/quote]

So, now we are speaking the language of abolition. If we can agree that the police have shown themselves unwilling or incapable of self-governance, and have lost the trust of the communities they claim to serve, then we can discuss what comes next. The conversation moves away from how to get cops back in schools and toward holding the County Council accountable for the commitments they made around non police intervention. I'm ready to have that conversation.[/quote]

What County Council commitments are you referring to? Is this related specifically to schools or to the general community? I'm not sure why you are steering the discussion away from the issue at hand with schools and into a different issue of policing/reforming the police.

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Here's what Elrich said when he announced he would remove SROs:

[b]"“Our intention is to increase our support for our students, provide the flexibility of responses other than police officers, unless they are otherwise absolutely necessary,” he said." 
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So, we need those repsonses. The reason we are talking about policing/reforming the police is becuase the whole entire reason that police are not in schools is becuase they were unwilling to reform themselves. If police weren't abusing kids, or if the leadership took action against those who did, they would not have lost the trust of the community and would still be in schools.

The two issues can't be untangled. [/quote]
And what have they done to protect our kids from threats inside of the schools?  Not seeing any actions.  All I see is sweeping incidences under the rug as to make it look like RJ is working.  Newsflash: IT's NOT WORKING![/quote]

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