Political leaders who raced to kick police officers out of schools after the murder of George Floyd three years ago are quietly bringing cops back amid growing concerns over brawls, drugs and weapons on campuses.
Nearly three dozen school districts in the U.S. removed police officers from schools within a year after Floyd’s slaying in May 2020. Some of the nation’s largest school systems, including Los Angeles County Public Schools and Chicago Public Schools, slashed funding for their police programs by as much as half in the aftermath.
But many of the districts that showed police officers the exit have found that disorder and violence have filled the void left behind. Wild fights between gangs of students, rampant drug use in schools and an alarming number of guns and knives found their way into classrooms without law enforcement on premises.
The Board of Education’s approved proposal allows the DPS superintendent to determine if a police officer needs to be stationed at a given school. The move is in line with the board’s updated structure, in which elected officials craft policy limits for the school system, but they don’t micromanage day-to-day operations.Montgomery County Public Schools in the Maryland suburbs voted to remove police from schools beginning in the 2021 school year.
This is in spite of a recent report from D.C.’s Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety that said officers recovered 77 knives, 15 tasers and five guns at schools during the 2021-22 school year. Still, he said, families living in areas most affected by the District’s crime issues were far more supportive of keeping cops in school than those who live in safer areas.
He also said police made fewer arrests and handed out fewer tickets during the final two months of this past school year — when cops returned to campus after the East High shooting — compared to the 2019-20 school year.
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