A grassroots group of parents in Los Angeles is pushing back against the city's activist groups and school district who want to keep police officers out of schools.
Some Los Angeles parents are putting up a fight against the city's most progressive activist groups, with violence in the school district nearly doubling since police were removed from school campuses following the riots over George Floyd's murder in 2020.
In 2021, Students Deserve, a progressive grassroots student organization advocating for the abolition of police in schools, pressured the LAUSD and the school board to divest money from the Los Angeles School District Police. The group argued the presence of police officers on school campuses often led to the criminalization of students, particularly those from Black and brown communities, and contributed to a hostile and intimidating environment that hindered learning.
Many Students Deserve representatives will appear at board meetings, Palma said, and urge members not to invest funds in the school's police department. 'They were the group that helped to create the situation in the first place,' Palma said. 'They are the group that the board listens to, and so they continue to oppose what the parents want.
This is not a question of whether or not the district has funds to fully fund a functioning police department to safely patrol our schools and to have officers assigned on our campuses,' Palma said. 'It is a political statement to appease the defund the police movement.' The LAUSD school board is developing a new safety plan. However, the board hasn't indicated whether the plan includes a return of police officers to schools.
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