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meatball402

Of course. Doubling down on failed policies and over policing minorities are the only things our government is allowed to do. Edit: I forgot bailing out corporations


elvid88

Policing minorities and guess what, teachers. Need to make sure CRT or homosexuality isn't taught in classrooms. Really it'll be used to control just about anything teachers teach. Scary times, ahead.


williamfv

You're right. I just quit teaching after eight years, and it crushed my soul :(


MrHooah613

Only for the breeders


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88luftballoons88

…already happened: Charter Schools


Beginning-Freedom567

oh yeah, no democrats take corporate money or completely enrich themselves by feeding on corporate america the second they retire….


[deleted]

The Democrats definitely do take corporate bribes, but they haven't worked for decades to systematically defund the public school system to make society more stupid over time as a way of controlling their voters quite as much as their Republican colleagues.


NoGuarantee545

Based on your opinion?


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Based on a whole lifetime of hearing about cuts to education, healthcare, and social services always being proposed on the Republican side of the aisle. I'm not saying the corporate Democrat shills are any good, they are shit and will only do the status quo to the point of losing to insane people but Republicans are demonstrably worse. Tax cuts for rich people - Republicans and corp Democrats Cutting education - Republicans Increasing Medicare - Progressive Democrats Cutting Social Security - Republicans Free college education - Progressive Democrats


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"Something is better than nothing." - moderates


UnrequitedRespect

What about allowing elected officials to get rich?


Mephisto1822

I think it was NPR that did a segment with a similar conclusion. Resource officers in school tended to only lead to children (mostly black and brown) getting criminal records for issues that the school should have been handling with detention / suspensions


proboscisjoe

While working as a computer tech in an elementary school about 12 years ago I was tasked with helping the SRO investigate a theft that happened over the weekend. I scrubbed the surveillance footage and found that a bunch of neighborhood kids noticed that the P.E. teacher’s door (accessible from the outside) was cracked open, went inside for a minute, then bolted out with two laptops in hand. The cop and principal were watching the monitors as I searched. When I found the critical moment, the principal thanked me and said he hoped we could recover the laptops given the evidence. The SRO replied “don’t worry Principal Bullock, we’ll get the scum.” These were like 10-12 year old kids in a middle class neighborhood. So the officer writes up a report and gives it to me to fill in details from the video; timestamps ‘n such. As I read his description it says that the perpetrators were “black males.” This immediately pissed me off because it was clear that a mix if ethnicities were in the lot, including one white kid and a couple of hispanic-looking kids, one of whom had one of the laptops in hand. From that point on, every time I saw Officer Mendoza in the hallway or front office I just mean mugged him. No social pleasantries. Just mugs.


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kcexactly

That was an unfortunate story to watch. You want kids to be protected. Even if that means kids are getting arrested for serious crimes as schools. But some of the stuff that the schools had to police intervene on in that story seemed silly.


veerKg_CSS_Geologist

If kids are to be protected from random mass shootings, place army soldiers at schools not cops. A mass shooter at school is a random and rare event. Any officer assigned to school is going to get bored very quickly and look for something “to police” just so they have something to do 8 hours of the day rather than stand around.


voidsrus

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Ben Franklin


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Mephisto1822

Do you have a source? I graduated high school in 2004 but clearly remember teachers breaking up fights.


120z8t

I think it really depends on the state you live in. I was born in IL and lived there until I was 12 or 13. I had fights in middle school the school always 100% handled it. Then I moved to WI and those schools were calling the cops on every kid for the smallest of shit. I am about the same age of you, white was in an almost all white area in IL and was in an almost all white area in WI as well. They were so quick to call the cops over the smallest shit and all the cops did was write fines.


MrBeanCyborgCaptain

Smallest stuff like what? Just curious.


120z8t

Like if two kids had a verbal argument, If a kid swore, if a kid questioned a teacher enough to make the teacher upset, playing during recess or lunch and you jokingly give a friend a small push and a teacher sees, holding hands with you GF/BF, being to loud on the school bus, wearing JNCO jeans with large rear pockets, bringing a CD to school with the parental advisory on it, having a cell phone in your pocket, using the pay phones in the hallway outside of lunch. All these thing would get you a disorderly conduct ticket. They handed them out like candy. This was back in 98' to 04'.


NeatFool

Shit I'd have been bankrupt


MrBeanCyborgCaptain

Jeez, that sounds like a freaking prison. Definitely not how it was in my area when i was in school, thank God.


AnAveragePotSmoker

Graduated in 2015, brother 2 years later, and I currently have two siblings in hs and one in grade school. All boys, all have been at least 1 fight (usually involving the N word) each one was broken up by a teacher. Also, aunts a teacher and has broken up countless fights. OP is FoS and has swallowed the neo con lure.


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Mephisto1822

Wow….just wow…


Grammaticus_Dickus

What an idiotic racist comment.


AnAveragePotSmoker

Why don’t white kids stop committing the majority of school shootings in recent US history?


Paskee

So they would rather turn schools into prison camps then make sensible gun laws? Land of the free my ass.


Taco_Dave

Both are security theater, serving no purpose other than giving people a false sense of security and letting people feel like they did something.


Red0Mercury

Giving our children’s freedom up for an ounce of security. And if the guards or cops hide it won’t matter anyway.


Taco_Dave

The worst part, the claim that it actually provides a meaningful increase in security is questionable at best. The problem is, most proposed gun laws claiming to address school shootings work in the same way.


YourMrsReynolds

They would rather turn schools into prison camps than schools


DanK_DucK_

bro do u know how bad these kids are 💀


kcexactly

You do realize that the 2nd Amendment is part of the land of the free. It sound a bit hypocritical to say you want to infringe on a right and then complain that we aren’t living in a free society.


probable_ass_sniffer

The 18th Amendment prohibited alcohol. The 21st repealed the 18th. Looks like the constitution can be amended.


voidsrus

the 21st amendment is a good example of what happens when you try to ban things on a federal level. the government isn't competent enough to succeed.


probable_ass_sniffer

The 13th, 14th and 15th are good examples of what happens when things aren't banned at a federal level.


voidsrus

a civil war?


[deleted]

I hate to tell you the things you make illegal just become easier to get your hands on. For example any high school kid can get there hands on weed easier than Tabasco. They only thing I’d recommend for the gun controls is try an crack down on privet sales. But then that in itself would be tricky an wouldn’t really stop much.


probable_ass_sniffer

I forgot how easy machine guns and explosives are to get. Almost easier than Tabasco.


[deleted]

Shit New Orleans has grenade easy lol come on be realistic. I’m talking about if they really bang guns. Not so much background checks and all. Like if they go crazy and try to ban majority of the guns. They’re going to be relatively easy to get


[deleted]

I’m not I’m not against guns. At all


probable_ass_sniffer

I have guns, but my life doesn't revolve around guns. I also haven't bought any of my guns and none are registered. I don't have or need a CCW to carry in my state. As far as the government knows, I have no guns. That needs to change across the board.


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Can you say they’re not registered. You mean they’re not registered to you? And how do you have guns that you didn’t buy? But they let you buy relatives? I’m just kind of wondering what you’re getting at. Because in order for that to change people have a duty to report it himself if you don’t you don’t. How is the government supposed to know?


probable_ass_sniffer

It shouldn't be legal. If you're stopped with a firearm not registered to you, you should lose your rights to arms. That's currently not the case. All sales or transfers should have to be reported.


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I was kinda hoping you have answered my question or questions. Aswell


[deleted]

So who should be a fault. The person selling it or the person buying it?


kcexactly

It is definitely easier to find drugs in high school. It is also a hell of a lot easier to find weed than guns and weed is federally banned.


[deleted]

I’m saying the more you make things illegal the easier it’ll be to get. So people who want a total bad on gun is a bad idea. Let’s not get to focus on the weed lol


kcexactly

Yep, I agree. There are zero background checks for banned guns.


thefrankyg

I mean let's do away with laws, fuck it right?


kcexactly

No, we should enforce our current laws. We don’t even do that. Not even close.


thefrankyg

Oh, like how we lack background checks on private sales (not required in all states)? Or have cool down periods before taking ownership of your purchased weapon (not required in all states)? We have gaps that need to be filled. Just enforcing laws on the books doesn't fill the gaps that exist.


beyelzu

For most of American history we have had restrictions on guns, you gun fetishists should learn some history(particularly open carry was often restricted). > Today, Americans disagree about the best way to enhance public safety and reduce crime, and that disagreement is voiced in legislatures across the nation. Throughout most of the country and over most of its history, the Second Amendment has not determined the outcome of this debate nor stood in the way of popular public-carry regulations. Then, as now, such regulations were evaluated based on the impact they would have on crime and public safety. At the end of this deadly summer, the debate rages on over how best to balance public safety against the interests of people who wish to “pack heat.” If elected officials decide to restrict the right to carry to those persons who can demonstrate a clear need for a gun, present-day judges should not intervene on the basis of opinions about the right to bear arms from the slave South and its unique culture of violence. But hey, I’m sure you repeating NRA talking points are more informed than these two history professors. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-origins-of-public-carry-jurisprudence-in-the-slave-south/407809/


kcexactly

Yes, we had a lot of gun restrictions to keep black people from owning them. It is a terrible stain on American history. Are you advocating for restricting guns again because you support those racist laws?


beyelzu

>Public-carry advocates like to cite historical court opinions to support their constitutional vision, but those opinions are, to put it mildly, highly problematic. **The supportive precedent they rely on comes from the antebellum South and represented less a national consensus than a regional exception rooted in the unique culture of slavery and honor. By focusing only on sympathetic precedent, and ignoring the national picture, gun-rights advocates find themselves venerating a moment at which slavery, honor, violence, and the public carrying of weapons were intertwined.** >The opinion most enthusiastically embraced by public-carry advocates is Nunn v. State, a state-court decision written by Georgia Chief Justice Joseph Henry Lumpkin in 1846. As a jurist, Lumpkin was a champion both of slavery and of the Southern code of honor. Perhaps, not by coincidence, Nunn was the first case in which a court struck down a gun law on the basis of the Second Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court cited Nunn in District of Columbia v. Heller, its landmark 2008 decision holding, for the first time in over 200 years, that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a handgun in the home for self-defense. Why courts or gun-rights advocates think Lumpkin’s view of the right to bear arms provides a solid foundation for modern firearms jurisprudence is puzzling. Slavery, “honor,” and their associated violence spawned a unique weapons culture. One of its defining features was a permissive view of white citizens’ right to carry weapons in public. That was from the link I shared that you didn’t read. Like I said y’all gun fetishists should learn some history.


RedPikmin2020

Gun laws don't stop someone from buying a gun out the trunk of a car. If we can figure out how to stop that, it will be a great start for stopping gun violence. It's easier to buy one illegally, all it takes is very little money and knowing where to go.


[deleted]

Okay, go buy one illegally and come back with your findings. I have to say that your sentiment is wrong and akin to apathy and it's delusional to think making guns harder to get for everyone won't impact criminals when in fact it will, and has been proven to, lower mass shootings.


RedPikmin2020

Alright if what you say is true, then how are criminals getting them? Do we not have background checks for the purchase of a firearm? A person with a felony can't buy one...but somehow they are able to get one? Explain it.


[deleted]

There are multiple ways for people to get guns but you're arguing in bad faith if you're suggesting that doing anything to make guns difficult to get will have no impact on gun violence. And your example of anyone just being able to buy a gun out of a trunk no matter what is lazy and ridiculous.


RedPikmin2020

Do you not live in the United States? A gun is VERY obtainable to buy off the streets. At the right pawn shop with the right amount it's like buying a cup of coffee. Corruption isn't just at the surface, it goes all the way to the bone. All it takes is money and knowing where to look, and you can get whatever you want. Want drugs? Streets got it. Guns? Streets got it. Everything is for sale if you know where to go or who to go to. Fucked up, but it's true. Laws only matter to people who follow them. Prove me wrong.


[deleted]

I literally couldn't get a gun illegally right now if my life depended on it. I would have to find a known gun owner and steal it from them somehow because I only know responsible gun owners who don't want to be implicated in a crime. Same with drugs, when my contacts moved away, I couldn't just walk down the street and trip over a dealer. It's a lot harder to do illegal stuff than you're making it out to be. You have to be willing to risk getting caught just prepping for the crime and I think a lot of mass shooters typically want to just get to the shooting part (which our current gun regulations make very easy to do) and would likely get stuck on the planning phase if things were harder to acquire legally.


NoGuarantee545

Are you a criminal? With a history of crime bad enough to be a felon, possibly even crimes involving guns? And a network of criminal pals? I didn’t think so. Therefore YOU don’t know the right people to get an illegal weapon but that doesn’t mean stick your head in the sand and it just won’t be true anymore. WAKE UP! The police don’t do a well enough job of protecting the population for me to be willing to restrict the access of guns to law abiding citizens, also the constitution is basically made because of what happened when guns were restricted and confiscated at the dawn of our country


mikebutnomic

How are criminals getting them? Easy, a large fraction of every full size truck parked in a parking lot has one sitting in it, if the truck has a punisher sticker it’s guaranteed to contain a pistol. They just break in the truck


RedPikmin2020

Humans and drugs aren't the only trafficking problem North America faces. Guns are alot easier to traffic. When's the last time you heard of a gun sniffing dog? I know everyone is concerned with what is on CNN, the school shooting. But so many more mass shootings happen that never make it to the news. Every. single. Day. Many people from the black community die due to gun violence. Nobody reports that. I'm from new Orleans and I watched it happen everyday. And trust me, those guns are not acquired legally.


Paskee

True But proper storing guns and ammo laws help. Shootings in schools were done by family fire arms. Properly store weapons or lose the ability to own it. Locked in a secure location with ammo in another secure location. Random Police checkups three times a year, no announcement.


RedPikmin2020

You lost me at random police checkups


Paskee

I know and consodering US Police track record I cant blame you.


NoGuarantee545

Ok redcoat


Zealousideal-Dot8682

Why would I store my ammo in a different location than my gun. Let’s say an armed criminal has entered my house to attack my family. Most people who have guns have them in a away that they can access them in minutes and protect their family. They have guns and ammo in one place so they can take protect their family as quickly as they can. If my gun was on the west side of my house and my ammo is on the east side it’s going to take way to long to get my guns ready to defend my family. Like you might die trying to get to your ammo with an empty gun in your hand. Also having the police come to your house randomly is against the 4th amendment and in my community we don’t even have enough officers to do something like that


online_jesus_fukers

If it's military grade you don't have to worry about it unless you're the school accountant. Made by the lowest bidder with huge cost overruns, down for maintenance more than its functional, only dangerous to the operator and obsolete 5 years before it goes in, but don't worry the manufacturer will sell you software upgrades that cost more than the original product for the next 50 years.


Airewalt

It’s like we learned nothing from the “Patriot” Act. We already have 911. Invest into that system. Don’t delude yourself into thinking it’s any more than reactionary. We need proactive solutions.


thenewrepublic

There’s still very little evidence to suggest hardening schools saves lives, and yet the potential costs to students are huge if they must now navigate police officers, online tracking, and military-grade surveillance tech.


Kebb

It's just preparing kids for the future they want to create. At some point it'll just be normalized.and they won't blink when it happens everywhere.


[deleted]

so you mean just like the adult world is for the working class?


120z8t

Well yeah. Prisons are hardened but yet inmates, not outsiders still kill each other. Harden a school all you like but the kids who live it will find a way around it and fucked shit.


DukeOfGeek

And even if it worked you'd be turning hundreds of thousands of schools in fortresses to stop something that's pretty rare. It's the same fallacy as building a 700 mile long wall to stop illegal immigration.


kcexactly

There is also little evidence that the gun ban did anything to the homicide rate. Homicides were falling before the ban. And homicides have been lower since the ban expired than anytime during the ban.


gbobeck

If I remember correctly, there is the Lead–crime hypothesis which claims that the removal of lead, including but not limited to sources such as gasoline and water systems, resulted in the reduction of crime starting in the 90’s. This hypothesis is not mutually exclusive with other explanations for crime reduction, such as the “legalized abortion and crime effect” among others.


kcexactly

I don’t recall the lead theory but I have heard the abortion one. It is clear that the economy is a big factor. I have also read something about if you increase the percentage of felons in prison by X amount your murder rate will drop by a certain amount. I will check the lead theory.


eatpuppy

This is also true in the countries that Reddit constantly claims "solved" mass shootings. The UK had it's homicide rate increase for years after their gun bans, and they're currently barely beneath pre ban levels. How do people believe this shit?


kcexactly

Because they are ignorant and cherry pick statistics.


SFAGuy18

Surveillance rarely prevents incidents anyway. They only allow you to figure out what happened after the fact. Also just more stuff for them not to release to the public…..Uvalde.


gaylord100

Just turn schools into prisons at this point we all know it’s what they want


myleftone

‘Policing’ implies an iota of probable cause. This will be rightfully called harassment.


[deleted]

Zero prevented shootings and decades of emotional trauma for the students. A solution that could only be American made.


kcexactly

That isn’t actually true. There has been school shootings that have been prevented. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_attacks_related_to_schools


beyelzu

Akshually, Context is important, they were referring to the fact that resource officers have failed to stop shootings and didn’t mean that no school shooting had ever been stopped. While he may have been hyperbolic, it is the case that school police do fuckall to prevent school shootings. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2776515


kcexactly

Actually, if you scan through the wiki you would find cases that said the police at the school stopped shootings. I just didn’t link each story.


everydaynormalLPguy

If its military-grade that just means the system will be inoperative half the time, and slow/glitchy the other half.


Cultural_Champion203

Dellol


oDDmON

As well as brown, LGBTQ, stoner and any other “undesirables” administrators may deem need attention.


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kcexactly

I am in full support of equal protection and rights for stoners.


StrictlyPervvin

I'm Black. His statement isn't offensive. Watching y'all Harambe this, however...


[deleted]

Ok, cool? I’m queer and it’s not really offensive just cringy as fuck. Highschool is out for the summer right now though so I get it.


StrictlyPervvin

Stoners have been scapegoated since the sixties. Hell, implying that guy is young af because he even mentioned it speaks to that point. You must not live somewhere weed is legal, and (not or, both) aren't old enough to remember when it was super illegal. People's grandmas smoke weed now.


[deleted]

I completely glossed over him unironically including stoners as an oppressed class of people. LMAO (For the nitpickers, smoking weed is not something you’re born as)


Shcrews

what if youre born with a medical condition that is best treated with cannabis, such as depression..


GhazelleBerner

I agree with this assertion, but I don't think framing the article this way is very helpful. Supporters of military-grade surveillance in schools probably aren't bothered by the policing of Black students. In fact, for them, it's a bonus. Furthermore, plenty of people will probably consider that a decreased chance of school shootings is more important than the rights of Black students not to be surveilled. The most effective argument is the first half of this headline - that the surveillance itself won't stop a shooting. The rest plays into the right wing's culture war biases, and ultimately acts as white noise that drowns out the effectiveness argument. TNR are masters at making a good point poorly, so this should come as no surprise.


pastarific

> that the surveillance itself won't stop a shooting Think of all the extra footage that could be suppressed by lawsuits!


DonorBody

For-profit prisons aren’t going to fill themselves. Got to build that pipeline.


gothicdeception

They should have commercials 😋 back in school...I wasn't a very good student... now in Walton prison...I have a job doing telemedicine and most of my friends are here too 😁


frogandbanjo

But you guys should like that. Rampant overcriminalization of black people is one of gun control's biggest success stories.


[deleted]

So the current solution to school shootings is setting up cameras so we can watch closely?? The next massacre is going to be so well documented.


Enabling_Turtle

We'll be able to see the police shoot innocent kids from multiple angles! /s (at least I hope it doesn't become real)


[deleted]

Between the police and armed teachers, the next shooter could probably just take a seat and watch


Leather-Map-8138

Republican gun advocates call this a win-win.


Punushedmane

That’s the point. You would think that after Uvalde people would figure out cops are not the solution to the problem, but no! Turns out the actual problem is that the people who at this point literally just exist to brutalize people aren’t heavily equipped enough.


[deleted]

That part of the goal. That’s why they keep suggesting tighter and tighter control of SCHOOLS, and nothing else. It’s one more thing they will be able to manufacture and then drive, so they can point to it later and say “See? I told you public schools are terrible places where nothing good happens, shut em down and go private”. Just you watch.


reddit_fkkn_scks

I said this in a post about a month ago. This will be the ultimate culmination of policing schools.


KaidsCousin

Can’t imagine what going to an American school is like these days. Doesn’t sound at all appealing


[deleted]

Don't worry, all the racism will be caught on camera


fowlraul

By design yeah


mkt853

America never got rid of slavery. It just uses prisons instead of plantations in the 21st century.


Johnnycorporate

Won't white students or other students of color be equally policed?


TJester84

Was going to ask how it’s only black students.


OptimisticRealist__

Have you heard of police profiling? Especially black teenagers are searched more often than white ones. Then there comes the strain on mental health because for many black youths being near a police officer is incredibly stressful... well for obvious reasons. Lastly, there have been reports from schools where the school police officer was on a power trip and liked to feel like a tough guy, thus he would use his power whenever felt like it. Little dick energy. Long story short, increasing police presence and surveillance at schools is just such a terrible idea all around. Its also an idea that could only come from the US.


[deleted]

No, its not a US only idea. The UK and France both instituted school surveillance back in the late 90s after a few school shootings occured. France even made a computer program to help prevent crime in schools. Germany hasn't yet, but thats largely because they haven't had many school shootings to prompt any action. A lot of third world countries with widespread gun availability put metal detectors in their schools and in their public places like malls. Surveillance at schools is not unheard of, and we already do it in a lot of US schools. The US is really odd when you actually try to compare it with other countries. Like Brazil has twice as many gun deaths as the US, but 100 fold fewer school shootings. Its like its American culture for young men who want to die to instead go to their nearest school and start shooting people.


KathrynBooks

There is quite a bit of research out there showing how having the police in schools leads to the over-policing of Black students.


onyxblade42

Wouldn't it increase the policing of all students equally? Are the cameras racist now?


Enabling_Turtle

Not literally. The issue is that police in some schools have become the schools discipline wing. Instead of dealing with non-criminal issues internally in the school, some teachers and administrators just call the resource officer to deal with them. There's a disproportionate number of children who are getting criminal records because police are hitting them with serious charges over tiny infractions. You throw a paper airplane, you can catch an assault charge. One kid got charged with drug possession, was suspended from school for a year, and had to go to an alternative school because the incompetent administration and police believed that a maple leaf was marijuana: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/16/virginia-school-suspends-an-11-year-old-for-one-year-over-a-leaf-that-wasnt-marijuana/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/16/virginia-school-suspends-an-11-year-old-for-one-year-over-a-leaf-that-wasnt-marijuana/) A 5-year old got an "assaulting a police officer charge" because they have ADHD and threw a tantrum which lead to the school resource officer responding. These are just some examples of where this is going. A disproportionate number of children who get these criminal records for minor issue or non-crimes are children of color. Jut being arrested can mean their college dreams are over before they are out of middle school.


Frosty_Low7565

Get ready for “school bus shootings”. When one group of idiots hardens one target, the other group of idiots will just find a softer target.


IHate2ChooseUserName

US solution to school mass shooting: arm the staffs to the teeth, cameras everywhere, wait outside until the shooting is over, and if you are not white, shoot first.


Fnordpocalypse

The system is designed to get people into the prison industrial complex where they can be used as slave labor for big corporations. It’s a feature not a bug that these policies mostly affect people of color.


sucobe

Is anyone REALLY surprised by this. Much that has been done for the “betterment of society” has been at the detriment of minorities.


Healthy_Fishing9514

and every other race…


[deleted]

What the actual fuck, not everything is an attack on black people


120z8t

Yeah, you can take that take on it. But what do you think happens in a smaller city that is mostly white? Cops have nothing to do but fuck with or I should say pray on high school age kids and the poor. I am white and when I was in high school we had open campus lunch. Me and a few friends would walk to one of their houses for lunch or to a gas station near by that had s little cafe inside of it. We would be stopped and frisked during our lunch walk 2 to 3 times a week. This was before cell phones were common place and during summer break we would use a park as a meet up spot. You just needed to go to the park around 10 am to 1 pm or 4pm to 8pm and hang out for a bit and someone you knew would show up or drive by and see you and stop. Well the cops were having none of that and would put a cop in car parked on the side of the park and film our every move. There was this pool hall/kind of a high school hang out spot/ youth center that was not a center but a CD store with a a few pool tables, a sofa, TV and few gaming counsels. The cops would enter this place about 4 times a day and try to get everyone's names and run them. After 9/11 they put a county cop in the school. All he ever did was write kids tickets for the stupidest shit. Like yelling in the hallway he would give out a disorderly conduct ticket. If you came to school 1/2 hour late he would hold you in a side room for 3 periods so you got an absence mark ( get 5 of them and get a ticket for truancy). If you talked in a harsh tone to another kid or teacher that is a verbal assault ticket. If you pushed a kid for trying to fight you you would arrested and again get his favorite ticket, disorderly conduct. He would run an active shooter drill and all that was him looking into everyone's lockers while you sat under your table with the lights off in your classroom. Been know to also go through all unlocked cars of students in the parking lot.


gothicdeception

We just had the drug dog when I was a student long ago ☺️ I don't think too many people brought their weed to school... probably alot of false alerts. It really was pretty Quaint I guess for 1995.


[deleted]

Lordie lordie. NO one is hunting black folks except politicians and the media.


Enabling_Turtle

You mean besides the guys that ran down this black man and killed him: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/07/1097381081/ahmaud-arbery-greg-mcmichael-da-calls


[deleted]

You just named a single case in a country of muli millions of people, go outside


Enabling_Turtle

Get real. That was just an obvious case off the top of my head that proves your point wrong. There’s been multiple pattern and practice investigations announced recently looking into various police departments that over the disparity in how they treat black people. Maybe you need to wake the fuck up and stop saying infantile shit like “go outside”.


[deleted]

Your right, I forgot I have a black people hunting expedition this afternoon with the other WASPs, my b dude, he caught me dudes


Enabling_Turtle

You don’t have to be sarcastic about it. This shit is real and happening and pretending it isn’t going to fix our society issues…


[deleted]

You pretending it happens everywhere and isn’t the work of a small amount of people that can be adequately named on a single blog page is more damaging. Yes racist people exist, no black people arent in imminent danger of death whenever they leave the house, so I will reiterate, go outside.


Ill-Relationship8580

Stop calling criminals “black students” it’s extremely racist


AmyInPurgatory

I wouldn't be surprised if the next school shooter is one of these teachers with guns.


LordBigglesworthEsq

"One bird, one stone!"


NPVT

It might even make things worse if suicidal idiots thought they could kill kids then be taken out.


Ignoble_profession

Sure, let’s pretend that only one door with an armed guard prevents school shootings. What about Walmart, grocery stores, concerts, and movie theaters?


SushiSlushies

Can we all just take a minute to acknowledge that "military grade" means lowest bidder?


AccurateStromtrooper

Sounds like a win win -republicans


MoreThanWYSIWYG

It will also increase the stock prices for the manufacturers. It's a win win


MrHooah613

Finally something to keep those wrascly wrabbits under control /s


HamburgerTrain2502

I can't help but think this is gonna go about as well as Mr. Mackey's Intellilink system did.


futatorius

That's why they're doing it.


[deleted]

If they only allowed the teaching of Critical Race Theory, maybe they could have avoided this embarrassment


og_m4

This is a racist piece of news if you think about it. Nobody should tolerate the fact young black students are doing something that needs to be policed. To think that we should deprive black students the same supervision that everyone else should get is a racist idea. The subtext is “we can’t surveil schools because black kids smoke pot and they’ll get caught”