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Facing pressure last summer in the midst of protests against racist police violence and the murder of George Floyd, Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed to move control of more than 5,000 school safety agents to the education department from the police department. The pledge reversed his longstanding opposition to such a transfer.
One year into the two-year transition, officials have said little about the process. Key questions have yet to be answered, including whether school safety agents will answer directly to principals, how their duties might change, and even if they will continue to wear police uniforms.
De Blasio promised to complete the transfer by June 2022, six months after he leaves office, leaving the complex logistical task of executing the move to the mayor’s successor. With Eric Adams winning the Democratic primary on Tuesday, and poised to sail through the general election in November, it’s unclear whether de Blasio’s proposal will come to fruition.
“A new mayor might not want to do any of it,” said NeQuan McLean, president of the local parent council in Brooklyn’s District 16, who supports the transition.
If I was the NYPD, I would welcome this. I always thought sending the police into the schools was a losing situation for them. The teachers can't handle a situation so they call the cops. The cops get there and handle it. The encounter gets videotaped and released. Then people, including the school, starts yelling the cops were too rough. If I'm a cop, I don't want to get anywhere near the schools. Although I doubt parents and teachers are happy about the board of education now controlling safety.
99% of student misbehavior does not need to be handled by cops or by agents under police control. A well-trained school safety agent can break up fights, keep strangers out of schools, stop kids from smoking weed in the stairwells, and other similar small-potato transgressions. Let them call the police in only when they have to. Most of the time that’s not necessary.
Let's keep them school safety under NYPD. There is a comfort level from parents and the kids. I dont hear too much about the folks being Bad Apples as they are composed mostly of women and city folks.
I have seen the relationships students can have with the nypd school safety, and feel they are caring enough to be where there at. Let's give them more pay and training. They give a F!
What are the advantages of having them under NYPD? What are the advantages of not having them under NYPD?
Some think all the NYPD does is escalate so they want to hire and train "safety patrol" staff instead that will be under the DOE to patrol the hallways. Mmmmm... I don't know. Ask the parents who have kids in the public school system. Some of the kids are rough and carry knives and stuff. I've seen them. They don't play.
It's all nonsense. It will be the same people who are school safety agents now. The city doesn't wholesale fire people.
For someone in charge of the NYPD, this is a no-brainer: "defund" the police without actually defunding real police and remove a crappy responsibility at the same time.
The dumb eat this stuff up. Give it to them. Let them eat cake! (Ie, the proles have always fallen for nonsense.)
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