Forgot to add: School is a “gun free zone”.
How did that work out?
Parents and families of the 17 dead in Parkland, Florida Read This:
PRESS RELEASE
ENDING THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE IN FLORIDA
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
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The NAACP has brokered a groundbreaking collaborative agreement on school discipline with Broward County Public Schools, law enforcement and its community partners. The agreement will serve as a model for school districts nationwide that aim to end the school to prison pipeline wreaking havoc in communities of color.
The collaborative agreement establishes proven alternatives to arrest for misdemeanor infractions by students that include common sense approaches such as counseling and mentorship. The historic agreement leverages the support of Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) and local law enforcement by reducing student suspensions, expulsions and arrests, while maintaining safe learning environments for students.
The agreement highlights the role of school officials in determining when student infractions warrant an arrest versus school disciplinary measures, particularly for minor misbehavior/offenses. The collaborative agreement is part of the national movement to end the schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline.
Chairman of the NAACP National Board of Directors Roslyn M. Brock praised the new agreement:
This comprehensive agreement changes the future of education in Broward County and sets the stage for a revolution nationwide. I commend our Florida leaders for bringing all of the parties together to shutdown the school to prison pipeline.
From Adora Obi Nweze, President of the NAACP Florida State Conference:
We now have the foundation to save a generation of youth of color from the criminal justice system. This would not be possible without the leadership of our Ft Lauderdale/ Broward Branch.
From Hilary O. Shelton, NAACP Washington Bureau Director and Sr. VP of Policy and Advocacy:
I applaud the efforts of NAACP Broward County President Marsha Ellison, School Superintendent Robert Runcie, Broward County law enforcement and all of the community partners involved in this effort for taking a stand against overly severe disciplinary policies the criminalize students for behavioral issues normally addressed by a school administrator. Arrests do not make schools safer. This agreement to embrace alternatives to police intervention will be the prototype for ending the school to prison pipeline in every Florida school district and school districts across the nation.
From Dr. Niaz Kasravi, Criminal Justice Director for the NAACP:
Too often, too many children in this country unnecessarily lose learning time and, too often, get criminalized for routine adolescent misbehavior. Today’s groundbreaking collaborative agreement will go a long way in putting a stop to the destructive pipeline that funnels children from school into prison and alters the trajectory of their lives forever. The NAACP hopes law enforcement and educators nationwide will work with their communities to adopt similar measures.
From Evans Moore, Interim Education Director for the NAACP:
Broward County Public Schools should be hailed as a leader for ending its zero tolerance disciplinary policy that has become too common over the past two decades in school districts across the country. Those policies have failed to improve the disciplinary climate and culture of schools. Today’s historic collaborative agreement sends a message to school districts across the country that Broward County Public Schools want to see its students, particularly those of color, thrive.
From Kevin Myles, Southeast Regional Director for the NAACP:
The NAACP, Broward Country Public Schools and all of the community partners involved in this groundbreaking agreement have taken important steps to end the overly harsh school disciplinary policies that lands students in the criminal justice system. Starting today, Broward County students will achieve higher heights as we close the school to prison pipeline.
disagree with a few points. first of all, reports I have read state that he bought the gun. therefore it was NOT his neighbor’s. secondly, what guns was he ‘stockpiling’? I heard that he only had the one. what other guns did he own?
NOTE TO ADMINS: This post is HARDLY worthy of “Breaking News”.
I had read where the owner made the guy keep the gun in the safe - but the guy had a key to it.
Growing up our family kept our guns in a “locked” cabinet that had cheap, decrative mesh on the front - it wouldn’t keep anybody out. And the little key to the flimsy lock was under a book on the shelf. That was in my bedroom once my brother left home - I was about 10.
Weird - I never did think about shooting anybody. I did fantasize about rigging up bombs against a bully at school. But it never occurred to me to use a gun! I suppose it was because I knew what damage a gun could do because I had been around them and hunting. But a “bomb” - that was still cartoon stuff. Perhaps similar to some guy that has only shot at paper with a real gun, or at “cartoon” characters on a video game.
Re#1 - Isn’t that obstruction of justice by school board and staff? To know about a crime and deliberately NOT report it? Moreso, isn’t it a conspiracy to make it formal county-wide policy? Teachers should teach, but they’re leftist who want to play fairytale social workers. It’s not them to determine how a “jail pipiline” works or does not work.
one look at the dude you could tell he was mental, why wasn’t he in some hospital?
Here's where it runs off the rails for me.
The owner had secured the weapon in a keyed security cabinet. Unbeknownst to him someone had duplicated his key. The gun was, according to my reading of this event and under these circumstances, technically "stolen".
I don't agree to throwing someone in the slammer for having their gun swiped.
The essential point is a failure of gov’t at every step of the way.
the answer to gov’t incompetance is not more gov’t
The shooter apparently had major social adjustment problems and this factor seems to have been present in a number of these shootings. People did not perceive him in a positive fashion. This is a mental health issue of course and it could have pushed him over the edge.
Guess the “school-jail pipeline” isn’t such a bad thing after all.
Was expelled from School after being identified as a potential threat and found with ammunition in his backpack.The police were not called because in Broward County liberals have severed the school-jail pipeline by forbidding reports to police
QUESTION! WERE THE PARENTS AWARE OF THIS NEW PROGRAM?
Im sure they werent
program instituted in 2013 between the NAACP, Broward Schools and the Broward Sheriff’s Office SHIELDED NIKOLAS CRUZ from being prosecuted for all of his crimes committed at school. Prior to this 2013 agreement, Cruz would have been subject to arrest by the BSO at Parkland HS.
Law enforcement was not informed that Nikolas Cruz was selling knives at the school cafeteria, bringing ammo to class, or engaging in assaults at Parkland High School because this asinine agreement forbids the school from informing local law enforcement. The agreement shields law-breaking students while on the school premises. Nikolas Cruz risked no legal consequences for his criminal behavior.