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originally posted by: burntheships
originally posted by: scubagravy
a reply to: Tempter
The world already knows that most american cops are pussys, liars and cheats.....
I'd offer up a different opinion, that is that this particular
Broward County was affected by a policy put in place
after Trayvon Martin that essentially prohibited the
school and the police department from charging children
in high school with crimes, and prevented them from acting
upon the warning signs of this student.
According to a source who spoke to the Miami Herald, Cruz had been suspended from Stoneman Douglas High for fighting and also for being caught with bullets in his backpack. This was apparently at least one of the reasons why administrators reportedly emailed a warning to teachers against allowing Cruz on the campus with a backpack. He was later expelled for reasons that have not been disclosed, but he was apparently not arrested.
This is not the first time that this "solution" to school crime has produced lethal results. An earlier case in the nearby Miami-Dade County public school system should have been a warning, but unfortunately, the media conspired to suppress the details of the case. The victim in Miami-Dade was one Trayvon Martin.
www.americanthinker.com...
Take Broward County, the Florida county that used to rank No. 1 at sending students to their state’s juvenile justice system. The stats troubled Broward County leaders, and they responded with a bold solution: Lower arrests by not making arrests.
After examining juvenile data, a local task force compiled 12 misdemeanor offenses that would no longer be considered police matters. Criminal mischief and vandalism, for example.
www.publicsource.org...
This is a Broward County issue, not all LE officers so
please at least attempt to be accurate
with your broad brush painting.
originally posted by: face23785
a reply to: Kurokage
Complete misrepresentation of what I said, but thankfully what I said is quoted so people can see that for themselves. Please open your mind. Your willful dedication to remain ignorant on this subject is not helping us move forward.
Why would arming teachers work, when there was already 4 officers there who were to afraid to go in and take action in the first place.
a lot comes down to how to tackle problems like mental health, and awareness of people with problems who own weapons.
Why would arming teachers work, when there was already 4 officers there who were to afraid to go in and take action in the first place.
originally posted by: thepixelpusher
a reply to: Kurokage
Right, you don't see people on a shooting spree that are loved by all those around them unless drugs (legal too) or severe poverty or gangs are involved. The knee jerk remove guns talk and bans didn't stop Chicago, Illinois from rocketing to the top of the crime list in the USA.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
We need to change the lack of hope and make it where people still can handle reality. As it is, a young man from a poor family is confronted with a capitalist society that can be uncompassionate to the serious issues he must deal with, and often has no real hope other than a future of poverty. As it is, a child becoming an adult has an expectation that life will always be kind, but life rarely is kind.
We have to change society from the ground up, building from a generation already mostly lost to the hopelessness. Just warring against drug use is not the answer.
TheRedneck
originally posted by: Deplorable
a reply to: TheRedneck
I only have a few concerns with teachers being armed:
1. I know how hard it is to engage a target safely.
2. What happens when (not if) one psycho teacher shoots a kid for being bad?
I'm sure there's a laundry list other people could come up with but, those two make me step back from promoting teachers to carry in class. If they want to carry - more power to them.