Minneapolis Public Schools terminates contract with Police Department over George Floyd's death
Source: Star Tribune
Minneapolis Public Schools has severed its decadeslong relationship with the city's police department in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody.
The school board voted unanimously Tuesday to terminate the MPD's contract to provide school resource officers. The district will cease further negotiations with the department and Superintendent Ed Graff must come up with a new plan for school safety by the board's Aug. 18 meeting.
"I value people and education and life," school board chairwoman Kim Ellison said in an interview. "Now I'm convinced, based on the actions of the Minneapolis Police Department, that we don't have the same values."
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The Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts have long faced criticism over the use of school resource officers, with both seeking to transform the role to be more of a mentor than an enforcer. In 2018-2019, a Minneapolis Public Schools survey gave mostly positive marks to the officers, but the data also showed that school cops had more interactions with black students than their peers.
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Kim Ellison was previously married to Keith Ellison, the current Minnesota Attorney General and former member of Congress for the Minneapolis House district.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Maybe if they're treated like pariahs it'll get through to them that they need to get their shit together.
Doubt it though.
Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)riversedge
(69,721 posts)and mental health professionals to work with students and their problems. And they do have problems.
madville
(7,397 posts)Still have to have some kind of security in middle and high schools. Of course the police in that jurisdiction will still have to be called in cases where a serious crime has been committed, like battery, burglary, sexual assault, etc. they might be able to go to the county sheriffs department instead of the PD though, depends on the jurisdictional laws and agreements in place.