Denver Public Schools board votes to end relationship with DPD, remove SROs from the district

DENVER – After five hours of contentious public comment online, the Denver Public Schools Board has voted to end its relationship with the Denver Police Department.

In a unanimous vote Thursday night, the DPS board voted in favor of the resolution of removing all 18 School Resource Officers (SROs) throughout the district. Studies have shown black and Latino students are more likely to be ticketed, suspended and arrested by officers on school campuses.

Tay Anderson, who led the charge to end the relationship with DPD, wants to take the $750,000 contract the district has with Denver police and instead use the money to help students through the pandemic and mental health issues.

“Our students shouldn’t be greeted by law enforcement officers, they need to be greeted by mental health support, school counselors and full-time nurses in our schools,” Anderson has told Denver7 previously.Anderson, the youngest member to have been elected to the Denver School Board, still thinks schools should have security, but doesn’t believe they should be armed.

The resolution not only ends the district’s contract with the Denver Police Department, it will also direct DPS Superintendent Susana Cordova to begin a community process by the end of August to come up with a plan to keep the thousands of students at the district safe.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...onship-with-dpd-remove-sros-from-the-district

I know im expected to make an extensive comments and provoke the thought and invite conversation, but I’m not gonna for Im gonna be sick.

Whom these misguided teachers gonna call if an armed fella walks into the skrul and start shooting? Avengers? Captain America?

No. They will call the police which will of course come... a minutes later.

And this **** is going on in my Denver?

I’m sickened

 

This trend of has been a fascinating study in craziness. I cant wait for the results next school year, my advanced condolences to the family of the child or children that dies as a result of this action.

 

It does look like an over reaction. They need to think this puppy through before they act. Of course the case in Florida the school cops failed.

 

Not overreacting, a knee-jerk. You know what I’m hoping for? For the parents of these skrul kids to be terrified, scared shitless, to call the emergency election and vote these *******s out.

 

Wonder how many school boards are subject to emergency recall.

 

The "school resource officers" are there to control the students who are uncontrollable.

The teachers do not believe in discipline or punishment, so they pretty much have to use police officers to do their dirty work.
It's a kind of insane concept, but that's how the current system has been working in many public schools.

 

“Our students shouldn’t be greeted by law enforcement officers"

You'd think students would be happy to be greeted by police...

Especially in Denver.

 

Teaching kids is not dirty work.

 

I was referring to disciplining and controlling them.

 

Some students are best served in an alternative school

 

Some of the schools in some neighborhoods practically are an "alternative school".

 

Lol...Don't worry, nobody expects you to be thought provoking. But the time may have finally come for people to address the issue of law enforcement.
Ever since Nixon encouraged the cops to take a heavier hand and promoted the use of swat teams, the police have become more and more aggressive and brutal.
They see themselves as a hammer and anyone who questions their actions as a nail. Even when they have made a mistake.
Also, right wing white supremacists have been infiltrating the police departments around the country for decades and getting away with murder, literally.
Maybe if people like you had spoken up earlier about police brutality, we wouldn't be where we are now, so look in the mirror if you want to apportion blame.
It's time to reform the concept of what a policeman or woman should be. When I was a kid, their motto was 'to protect and serve' and we admired and respected the police. Now we got too many rogue cowards sporting badges and wearing guns and people are afraid of the police.
You can roll that up and smoke it any way you want, but the bottom line is this- no justice, no peace.
Don't expect people who are being oppressed to bend over and take it so you can carry on in your bubble. It's not the American way.

 

Some students are best served if they went to a trade school. NEVER to early to learn how to make metal furniture and license plates for the State.

 

My high school was so dangerous, the school paper had a obituary section! There were daily fights, students stabbed, and even a shooting. As soon as they put a mini-police station on campus, it changed overnight. Armed, plain clothes officers greeted students and were visible during lunch breaks.

I knew what it was like to fear for my life and having police on campus made a big difference.

 

Will they allow the police in during the next school shooting? The schools are now unarmed and unprotected targets.

 

The next Columbine will be interesting. Denver and suburbs have been going to hell anyway, ever since CO legalized MJ. People get what they deserve. My neighborhood, Aurora, will follow Denver soon then.

 

That probably is the thinking behind this enlightened liberal progressive decision - no need to have cops on campus, at the first sight of trouble, call the police! And save $3/4 mil which can be used for mental health.

But it'll take minutes for the police to arrive... at least.

 

It is amazing and quite intriguing how mass insanity spreads like the plague.

 

I was wondering the same thing. Seems like a ridiculous decision that might cost some kids their lives.

 

"studies have shown....." got to love that. Studies have also shown who commits infinitely more crimes, but then again those studies are racist, of course.

 

Aurora, I feel for you brother. I escaped there 30 years ago.

 

Liberal assertion above, objective data below.




How does one engage in rational discourse with a worldview in which facts don't matter?

 

In certain cities it is. Care to guess why some schools are in better shape than others. It’s the students.

 

At the risk of being called racist, yes indeed.

 

It’s not even a race thing. It’s a class thing. Students and the community who know little of caring about where they live don’t treat the school any better than where they live. Most suburban schools don’t have bars on the windows.