The Clearwater School recognizes that the invention of policing was in service of white supremacy and continues to uphold white supremacy today, which is antithetical to our values of Freedom, Trust, and Responsibility. TCS is committed to divesting from police and policing (both literally, culturally, and interpersonally) and investing in trust based, community centered ways of harm reduction and repair.
The Anti-Racism Committee and School Meeting developed the list of commitments below in response to the protests against police brutality in June of 2020. The Anti-Racism Committee further developed this list in April 2021 to reflect how our commitments have evolved over time. These commitments are intended to inform our choices moving forward and to hold us accountable in acknowledging and transforming the ways that we are currently invested in forms of policing. We recognize that this is a starting point and that the specifics of how we meet our commitments will change and grow as our community learns more about the systemic racism we have institutionalized and the interpersonal and cultural racism we have internalized.
Although I'm no fan of today's militarized police ... I see this stuff above as complete drivel.
Which is why you don't see police stations/law enforcement in white areas.
Oh wait ...