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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCompton School Police Will Be Armed With Semi-Automatic AR-15 Rifles
http://laist.com/2014/08/18/compton_school_police_will_be.phpStudents at a Compton school will be facing some changes as the new school year starts next Monday: the campus' police officers will now be allowed to keep semi-automatic AR-15 rifles in the trunks of their patrol cars while they're working.
The school board approved a policy in July that allows selected campus police officers to buy these rifles and keep them in their cars in case they need to use them in instances of mass shootings or terrorist attacks, according to KPCC. They plan on training these chosen officers and letting them carry the weapons in their cars within the next month.
Folks in the community are criticizing the policy and questioning why such high-powered weapons are needed on campusand in the hands of the school police. Francisco Orozco, a recent high school graduate and founder of the Compton Democratic Cluba group that discusses local policiessaid that students have complained about the campus police's excessive force and that there was a lawsuit filed by parents last year in the district about the school police's racial profiling. (Fox News Latino reported that Hispanics and Latinos make up 65 percent of the Compton community and African-Americans make up 33 percent.)
"The school police has been very notorious in the community and in reality has never had to shoot anyone before," said Orozco. "So this escalation of weapons we feel is very unnecessary."
The school board approved a policy in July that allows selected campus police officers to buy these rifles and keep them in their cars in case they need to use them in instances of mass shootings or terrorist attacks, according to KPCC. They plan on training these chosen officers and letting them carry the weapons in their cars within the next month.
Folks in the community are criticizing the policy and questioning why such high-powered weapons are needed on campusand in the hands of the school police. Francisco Orozco, a recent high school graduate and founder of the Compton Democratic Cluba group that discusses local policiessaid that students have complained about the campus police's excessive force and that there was a lawsuit filed by parents last year in the district about the school police's racial profiling. (Fox News Latino reported that Hispanics and Latinos make up 65 percent of the Compton community and African-Americans make up 33 percent.)
"The school police has been very notorious in the community and in reality has never had to shoot anyone before," said Orozco. "So this escalation of weapons we feel is very unnecessary."
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Compton School Police Will Be Armed With Semi-Automatic AR-15 Rifles (Original Post)
KamaAina
Aug 2014
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NOLALady
(4,003 posts)1. What could possibly go wrong?
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)3. Corollary: No-one could have predicted.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)2. This is madness. nt
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)4. So y do parents send their children to school?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)5. Well then fuck them and public schools, citizens need to revolt, express their repulsion.
Unless they like this idea, it's up to them.
Me, I won't do it. I've chosen to live in a county where they won't accept any of the government military supplies save for a handful of night vision goggles.
You can observe wildlife, like turtles laying eggs, with them.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)6. Yeah, more guns, that's the answer
What could possibly go wrong?
Michigander_Life
(549 posts)7. Guns in the trunk won't be of any use during a school shooting
Either carry them in hand or not at all. I wouldn't want an armed police officer running OUT of the school to his car during the midst of an active shooter.