Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
“That means minor crimes that take place at school, such as trespassing, truancy, theft and drug use, she said, would be “dealt with more appropriately in other ways” that don’t involve arrest and prosecution.”
All crimes? Or only crimes committed by Students Whose Lives Matter, to make the statistics come out better?
What a rude shock when you leave school and find out there are laws in place and people expect you to follow them. Thugs will encounter kindler, gentler police when police encounter kindler, gentler thugs. Until then . . . .
I’ll differ with Joe in degree, here; we do have too many arrestable crimes in this country. Truancy? Marijuana possession? Minor driving offenses? Please.
Joe Doakes
A fellow member at my church is a special ed teacher, and her appraisal of the DOJ’s disparate impact agreement with Rochester Public Schools is that it more or less gives carte blanche to a lot of kids in her class to do just about anything.
Oops. And really, what a lot o these kids need most of all–having grown up without a meaningful dad in their lives–is for the rules to be enforced, even if it does hit their particular minority harder than others. It’s worth noting that the court ruling that overturned voter ID in North Carolina is at its heart a disparate impact ruling.