Going Just Fine
By Mitch Berg
The deeply conservative sheriff of Jim Hogg County, Texas, has decided to remove its school resource officers from schools in that rural central Texas county.
Sheriff Jimmy Bob Throckmorton yesterday announced that the Jim Hogg County School District had put bizarre and unworkable restrictions on his deputies.
Oops. Did I say Sheriff Jimmy Bob Throckmorton of Jim Hogg County, Texas? I meant the comfortably left-of-center Sheriff Dawanna Witt, of Hennepin County.
Not sure how that slipped past SITD’s copy-editors.
August 30th, 2023 at 7:59 am
Rockford? They’re gonna remove SROs from a high school out in the pretty rural part of HennCo? Maybe a couple miles across the river from Wright county from where I would guess the majority of students come? Among the smaller high schools (I’m thinking) and probably one of the least problematic?
I think there’s something missing here.
Or is the left-of-center Sheriff Witt simply pointing out just far to the nutty left the Legislature that came up with these new rules really is? Goodness, left on left disagreement?
August 30th, 2023 at 8:00 am
We all know that the school system is woefully underfunded and nothing best exemplifies that situation than the continuing, pervasive violence in our schools. The recent law change will exacerbate that reality making it clear to everyone by this time next year that ONLY a clean election sweep from the top of the ticket to the bottom in favor of Democrats will free up the funds necessary to Fully Fund Education™ and thus restore civic tranquility.
August 30th, 2023 at 8:05 am
Yup! More proof that neither the DFL party, nor Edumacation Minnesota, care about the children.
I’m happy that Bloomington’s police chief, disagrees with the new law and has stated the he will retain the SRO’s in the schools and that he will support them 100%. Edina’s police chief apparently has made the same statements.
August 30th, 2023 at 8:12 am
of course no one suspects that the lack of an SRO will encourage malignant progeny of our morally challenged underclass to bring weapons to school and sponsor a couple of Mass Killings so that the Democrats get a twofer: Fully Funded Education AND more gun control.
August 30th, 2023 at 8:53 am
It is all about priorities (see below for an example). Ruling elite does not give a hoot about you or kids, especially YOUR kids. You are all expendable and but a bump on the road to a malthusian utopia.
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August 30th, 2023 at 10:27 am
Look at these ugly leftists celebrating this on TWATTER. I wish the worst for them.
August 30th, 2023 at 1:55 pm
Years ago, my sergeant pissed some higher-up off, so they made him a SRO. On his first day on the job, a student threw a desk through a second story window.
Sarg slapped the cuffs on and was frog-walking the perp out the front door with the school’s vice-principal came running up and told him to remove the cuffs and “we would handle it.”
Sarg then said, “If the cuffs come off him, they go on you. Now how do you want to handle it?”
Needless to say, that was a quick way to get out of being an SRO.
August 30th, 2023 at 2:24 pm
Meanwhile, Charges dismissed against suspect in police pursuit crash that killed Leneal Frazier
A brief court filing signed by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty states the reason for dismissal as “an inability to prove all of the charges beyond a reasonable doubt at this time.
August 30th, 2023 at 2:40 pm
prediction: after a series of “distressing” incidents over the winter, sometime midway through the legislative session, the trifecta will cobble together an Enabling Act (Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Staat) that will grant the governor the power to enact laws sans the Legislature.
August 30th, 2023 at 3:54 pm
It seems more and more that the application of physical force is no longer seen as an understandable escalation appropriate in certain cases due to clear provocation, but rather as a “shall not go” for the law-abiding that will be used in grievous ways by those who are not.
More and more, it seems that the ordinary patterns of human behavior are being re-defined as crimes, and crimes are being re-defined as ordinary patterns of human behavior.