New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has softened his stance on a variety of police reforms in recent days, amid open revolt from former and current allies, but when it comes to cops in schools he’s standing fast — for now
“You’ve been criminalizing them since they first entered schools with metal detectors and constant policing and all these rules, and you made them feel like criminals” said Eliana Martinez, a junior at Talent Unlimited High School in Manhattan.
But de Blasio insisted this week there were ways to change how the city’s roughly 5,500 school safety agents approach their duties, without removing them from schools. He’s backed legislation in the City Council to illegalize chokeholds, supported more transparency for police records, and even suggested he’d shift funding from the department to youth services.in which police can arrest or give students summonsesBut he rejected a recommendation by the city’s School Diversity Advisory Group to evaluate the benefits and disadvantages of shifting supervision of school safety agents from the NYPD to DOE.
Advocates say there are issues that should be handled by social workers, school psychologists and others instead of police and school safety officers.
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