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School districts across the country rethink dangerous and insanely expensive contracts with cops:
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School districts across the country rethink dangerous and insanely expensive contracts with cops
Because Black and brown students have been so disproportionately targeted by school police—most of the 4,500 citations to Denver students since 2014 have gone to Black and Latino students—that district has decided to act, spurred into action by the movement that has surged in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. “The reason why we want to move forward without Denver police is simple: We don’t want our schools to be ground zero for the school-to-prison pipeline,” Tay Anderson, a Denver school board member said. They don’t want to see their students losing their lives to cops because they’ve been funneled into a corrupt and racist criminal justice system. On Thursday, the Denver board voted unanimously to have police out of schools in the next 18 months.
School districts across the country rethink dangerous and insanely expensive contracts with cops:
liberalbydefault:
thetrumpimpeachment:
School districts across the country rethink dangerous and insanely expensive contracts with cops
Because Black and brown students have been so disproportionately targeted by school police—most of the 4,500 citations to Denver students since 2014 have gone to Black and Latino students—that district has decided to act, spurred into action by the movement that has surged in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. “The reason why we want to move forward without Denver police is simple: We don’t want our schools to be ground zero for the school-to-prison pipeline,” Tay Anderson, a Denver school board member said. They don’t want to see their students losing their lives to cops because they’ve been funneled into a corrupt and racist criminal justice system. On Thursday, the Denver board voted unanimously to have police out of schools in the next 18 months.