Education board votes to expel school police force in Oakland, California

FILE PHOTO: Families practice social distancing while waiting in line at West Oakland Middle school to pick up “grab and go” meals during the Oakland Unified School District shutdown in Oakland, California, U.S. March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Kate Munsch/File Photo

It also calls for a new school safety plan for the district, which serves some 38,000 students, 26% of them African American. However, the board of education for the Los Angeles Unified School District , the nation’s second-largest, failed to agree on Tuesday to a measure to phase out police there.Districts across the country, including Chicago and New York, have faced mounting pressure to rid schools of police as part of a nationwide law enforcement reform movement following Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis last month.

Andrea Vasquez Jimenez, co-director of a group that pushed successfully to remove police officers from Toronto schools three years ago, said student suspensions and expulsions there have since dropped sharply as the district adopted a less punitive and more “restorative” approach to discipline.

Totally, wrong! Wrong!! Wouldn't be prudent.😭

Community Policing concept being shot down in Oakland. thank god there is a freeway thru the city. you glide right over the top of it.

Sandy Hook anybody. Such a pathetic anti-law and order move.

Let the gang violence begin!

Yeah, abolish until the next mass shooting, then shouts why the cops were so slow.

are they going to expel the bullies drugs violence?

Isn't one of the major purposes of having police in schools is so that the cop(s) get to know the students over the course of the year(s). I mean isn't this community policing that theoretically at least should minimize police use of excessive force and provide basic security...

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