Uniformed and sometimes armed police are a common sight in American public schools. But not, perhaps, for much longer. onesarahjones reports
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The path to police-free schools is an arduous one, as the example of Minneapolis shows. There, it took a murder and a nationwide protest movement to get cops out of city schools. The practice is entrenched, with uniformed and sometimes armed police a common sight in American public schools. Around 30 percent of the nation’s school districts used police, known as school resource officers, in 2013. The Oakland Unified School District in California even has its own police department.
The Madison union had historically supported the use of resource officers in schools. In other cities, unions had been organizing alongside community groups against policing in schools for years. “This is work our union has been doing since 2015, in coalition with community groups, grassroots organizations, and students,” explained Stacy Davis Gates, the vice-president of the Chicago Teachers Union.
The transfer of public wealth from social services to policing brings with it a transfer of power, too. It keeps old hierarchies alive, then reproduces them anew for each generation. Our national overreliance on the police burdens not just taxpayers, but children, for whom the presence of a school resource officer may be no guarantee of security at all. School police are responsible for everything from breaking up fights to fighting off gunmen.
Educators and teachers unions who want the police out of schools also have to worry about more than recalcitrant mayors and City Councils. They’ll have to pressure the rest of the labor movement to take up their cause. The debate over police in schools unfolds within another, related conflict within the labor movement itself. Other unionized workers are questioning the cops in their midst.
“Having said that, we believe that police and school resource officers should be mentors, not enforcers, that you can no longer have zero-tolerance discipline policies. That you need to have restorative justice,” she added.
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