Quote:The article is about efforts undertaken to avoid arresting students. And the article speaks to the concern that Broward County might have turned a blind eye to the behavior of Nikolas Cruz because they wanted to lower the number of student suspensions, which is a big part of Obama-Holder prison reform. So this is a five-year-old story. Well, four and a half years old. It’s December of 2013.

“The story behind the so-far successful crusade to end disproportionate student arrests and suspensions in one Florida school district. When, after a nationwide search, he was hired two years ago to serve as superintendent of Florida’s Broward County Public Schools, Robert Runcie began brainstorming ways to close the racial achievement gap.

“At the time, black students in the sixth-largest district in the country had a graduation rate of only 61 percent compared to 81 percent for white students. To find out why, Runcie, who once headed a management-consulting firm, went to the data. ‘One of the first things I saw was a huge differential in minority students, black male students in particular, in terms of suspensions and arrests,’ he says. Black students made up two-thirds of all suspensions during the 2011-2012 school year despite comprising only 40 percent of the student body.”

So you see the way this works if you’re a leftist, you don’t count the crime. You look at the percentage of arrests and imprisonment, and you compare that to the population at large, and you find racial bias. And the only way you can do that is if you assume that many of these crimes being committed by minorities are not really being committed, that they’re only being charged because there’s a racial bias in the police department or the sheriff’s department. And that racial bias is indicated by the exorbitant percentage of African-Americans and minorities in jail or in prison and your belief that it wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for racism.

So you start out by claiming that law enforcement is corrupt because they’re targeting minorities who aren’t committing crimes, they’re arresting them and imprisoning them, and you want to fix it. That’s the starting point for this. They say, “Look, the black population is, what, 15% of the country, but in the prisons it’s 70%, that proves bias.” It doesn’t, unless you’re a liberal.

It doesn’t prove anything of the sort. It proves who’s committing the crimes. And if you don’t like that, if you’re Obama and Holder and you don’t like that, then you want to change that, the only way you can do it is by ignoring some of the crime, not charging, not arresting, and not imprisoning, to change the percentages.

So back to Runcie, who is still the superintendent. “‘One of the first things I saw was a huge differential in minority students, black male students in particular, in terms of suspensions and arrests,’ he says. Black students made up two-thirds of all suspensions during the 2011-2012 school year despite comprising only 40 percent of the student body.”

You see? Automatically there’s bias. It can’t be that there are actually crimes being committed in those percent. No. It has to be racism and bias against African-American students.

“And while there were 15,000 serious incidents like assaults and drug possession reported that year, 85 percent of all 82,000 suspensions were for minor incidents –use of profanity, disruptions of class — and 71 percent of all 1,000-plus arrests were for misdemeanors. The last statistic, says Runcie, ‘was a huge red flag.'”

So Runcie is claiming here that he saw a whole lot of racial discrimination here in the way minorities were treated in the criminal justice system. “Broward announced broad changes designed to mitigate the use of harsh punishments for minor misbehavior at the beginning of this school year.” Remember, this is 2013. “While other districts have amended their discipline codes, prohibited arrests in some circumstances –” let’s not gloss over that.

“While other districts have amended their discipline codes, prohibited arrests in some circumstances, and developed alternatives to suspension, Broward was able to do all these things at once with the cooperation of a group that included a member of the local NAACP, a school board member, a public defender, a local sheriff, a state prosecutor, and several others. In early November, The Miami Herald reported that suspensions were already down 40 percent and arrests were down 66 percent.”

Now, not because of the change in the behavior of students, but because of a change in the philosophy of pursuing them. So now I turn to a little piece here from Conservative Treehouse. There’s a writer at Conservative Treehouse that goes by the nom de plume of Sundance.

So how is it that four armed cops remained outside the building and didn’t do anything? How is that possible? Well, here’s what people don’t understand. “When the county education policy is intentionally constructed to ignore criminal behavior in schools, the sheriff and school superintendent cannot rely on ‘law-and-order-minded’ school” resource officers to carry out the corrupt policy. That’s what Peterson, the guy that was outside armed and didn’t go in is called a school resource officer. And it is the contention here that these people are political appointees, not law enforcement specialists. And they are there to carry out and see to it that the political aspect of this equalizing jailhouse population policy is instituted.

It’s a fascinating piece, but the primary assertion here is that in order to obtain money from the federal government and programs that were instituted by Obama and Eric Holder, local governments were rewarded with these grants if they kept school arrests down. Let’s stop the pipeline from schools to prison. Right here in this 2013 story, “Reversing Broward County’s School-to-Prison Pipeline.”

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You know, it turns out that Sheriff Israel was actually asked about this program on CNN yesterday by Jake Tapper. The only thing missing from the question was that it was an Obama-era program. Here’s the question: “A lot of people in the community have noted that the Broward County School Board entered into an agreement when you were sheriff in 2013, to pursue the least punitive means of discipline against students.

“And this new policy encouraged warnings, consultations with parents, programs on conflict resolution instead of arresting students for crimes. Weren’t there incidents committed by the shooter as a student that if this new policy hadn’t been in place, he would have been arrested for and then not able to legally the buy a gun?” And the answer is yes! Here’s what Sheriff Israel said…

TAPPER: I think there are a lot of people, sir, who think that there are a lot of mistakes, other than that one deputy.
But let me ask you something else. A lot of people in the community have noted that the Broward County School Board entered into an agreement when you were sheriff in 2013 to pursue the -- quote -- "least punitive means of discipline" against students.
This new policy encouraged warnings, consultations with parents and programs on conflict resolution, instead of arresting students for crimes.
Were there not incidents committed by the shooter as a student had this new policy not been in place that otherwise he would have been arrested for and not able to legally buy a gun?

ISRAEL: What you’re referring to is the PROMISE Program, and it’s giving the school… The school has the ability under certain circumstances not to call the police, not to get the police involved on misdemeanor offenses and take care of it within the school. It’s an excellent program. It’s helping many, many people. What this program does is not put a person at 14, 15, 16 years old into the criminal justice system, so they can —

TAPPER: What if he should be in the criminal justice system?

ISRAEL: Then —

TAPPER: What if he does something violent to a student? What if he takes bullets to school?

ISRAEL: That… Then…

TAPPER: What if he takes knives to school? What if he threatens the lives of fellow students?

ISRAEL: Then he… Then he goes to jail.

TAPPER: That’s not what happened!

ISRAEL: That’s not possible in the PROMISE Program.

TAPPER: But that’s not what happened with the shooter.

ISRAEL: If -- Jake, you're telling me that the shooter took knives to school or bullets to school, and police knew about it?

TAPPER: I don't know if police knew about it.

ISRAEL: No. Well, police...

TAPPER: I know that the agreement that you entered into with the school allowed the school to give this kid excuse after excuse after excuse, while, obviously...

ISRAEL: Not for bullets, not for bullets, not for guns, not for knives, not for felonies, not for anything like that. These are infractions within the school, small amounts of marijuana, some misdemeanors.
You're absolutely exacerbating it. That's not...

(CROSSTALK)

TAPPER: There are at teachers at the school had been told, if you see Cruz come on campus with a backpack, let me know.
Does that not indicate that there is something seriously awry with the PROMISE Program if these teachers are being told, watch out for this kid, and you don't know about it?

ISRAEL: We don't know that that has anything to do with the PROMISE Program. I didn't hear about this until after the fact. I have heard about this information about a week ago. I do know about it. I don't know who the teacher was. It hasn't been corroborated, but that has nothing to do with the PROMISE Program.

I can't, nor can any other Broward sheriff's deputy, handle anything or act upon something you don't know about it. There's no malfeasance or misfeasance if you don't know about something.

TAPPER: He asked a question at the town hall of you. So, you can find him if you want.

That’s exactly. Jake Tapper is on the warpath here, but… (laughing) The PROMISE Program! I’m telling you what this was! This was an Obama-era program authorized with his buddy Eric Holder at the DOJ, and they paid these school districts money to do this! They got more money for every arrest they did not make! The money became the reason for excusing certain behavior so it won’t show up in the background checks! So it’s got nothing to do with the background check, got nothing to do with the NRA, got nothing to do with anything other than the federal government… (groans) It’s just… It never changes. It just never does.

Link

PROMISE Program Full Agreement: https://www.scribd.com/document/37230838...l-Document

Quote:A Broward County School Police Officer must: carry a political hat and be able to intercept anti-social behavior (ie. filter through “The Promise Program“); modify his/her action based on the specific policy need (no arrests); falsify documents (as needed), hide evidence (as needed), manipulate records (as needed); and engage inside the system with an understanding of the unwritten goals and school board/LEO objectives (improve stats).

As such, Broward County school law enforcement are given political instructions, and carrying out political objectives. The 30 minute CCTV tape-delay is one unofficial consequence of that objective. School police are not given law-enforcement instructions.

The school officers are the primary foot soldiers carrying out county political policy (must keep statistics protected). Actual physical security of school students is not their primary role, they don’t have time for that. The Broward County school officer is in place to protect the school system “policy” and ensure students are not arrested for criminal conduct.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/201...sequences/

Here is the PROMISE website for Broward Country: https://www.browardprevention.org/behavior/promise/

I read info on this last week. Shameful.

You know if some government plan became a turd nugget that Obama & Holder touched it at some point.

Sounds like the former "chief" of police in Columbia. He would insist that there wasn't a gang problem in Columbia despite evidence of multiple gangs, including a pretty significant sect of the Bloods. He insisted they weren't gangs they were "groups of youth".

If you think this is happening just in Florida and just because of Obama, you're crazy. It's everywhere and it's happening now more and more. The minute a kid is suspended, his or her parents threaten a lawsuit against the school district and very quickly the kids are put back in the regular schools.

I know of a recent incident here in our district where two high school students were stimulating a sex act during the school day, and were caught in the 'act' (again it wasn't actual sex though). They were both suspended and were supposed to be placed in the alternative high school the rest of the school year. Within days, one of the parents sued the school district and I believe they ended up only going to the alternative school for about a week.

But my guess is suspensions will still be upheld if the offenses are serious enough. If someone brings a gun or a weapon to school, they're done and at a minimum are no longer going to the school where they were caught. Probably a lot of these suspensions were drug related (marijuana)?