Frustrated parents in Maryland have formed a group to demand school resource officers return to walk the hallways and keep students safe in the state’s largest school district, where a school shooting took place after law enforcement was pulled.
The group Vigilance not Vigils formed in Montgomery County after the school district defunded its SRO program in March 2021, The Washington Free Beacon reported. The schools then experienced a jump in violence that included a non-fatal school shooting in January of this year.
Joe Connor of We Win America tells AFN he is dumbfounded by the anti-police push when armed law enforcement guards everything from airports to bus terminals.
“Why we’re reluctant to have armed guards at the schools to protect our kids, I don’t know,” he says. “It just seems very strange to me.”
The simple answer is the school district went “woke” when police were viewed as the enemy of minorities during riots and protests in 2020.
As part of that pushback, liberal Montgomery County officials used the SRO funding to pay for mental health and “restorative justice” training. The on-campus cops were replaced with “community engagement” police officers who are spread across 200-plus school buildings where they patrol outside, not in the hallways.
Regarding the claim that school resource officers target blacks and Hispanics, the Beacon obtained a document that said 11 arrests were made on Montgomery County campuses, and six were white students and four were black.
“I think everyone should be pretty universally agreeable that we need to protect our kids,” Connor says, “and not really worry about what color or religion they are.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Liberal lawmakers don’t want to do that because it infringes upon a potential future crisis that they can exploit. Even though they may holler about “ending gun violence”, there is no interest on their part to accomplish that.
Certainly not with the criminal gangs!
Just when did Psychiatrists replace God as the great corrector of delinquency, and murder in our schools? When did psychiatrists who base their Freudian corrections upon repressed sexual imaginations, elevate themselves as so-called infallible social deities. 5 minutes of prayer on their knees would do more to correct a child than 5 weeks of mental health expenses. And it does not cost us a thing to get, but costs everything including up to your child’s life when not available as the true palliative. Trying to correct a problem of the soul with medicine made to control the mind is futile, and a waste of time, wealth and now lives. We hired the butcher to bake our bread, where the baker or even the candlestick maker would have done a better job for a real meal.
IMO when the left started killing OFF god in school!