School Resource Officers Fuel the School to Prison Pipeline

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Dissecting “Defund the Police,” through analysis of the City of Chicago: Office of the Inspector General Review of the Chicago Police Department’s Management of School Resource Officers September 2018 (Report)

In recent weeks, the idea of “Defunding the Police” has polarized and trended across all channels of Social Media. While many would like this to sound like an extremist political view, what if we examined this from a lens of context, i.e., what has been allowed in Chicago, as evidenced in the Report (2018), and compared to the National Standards jointly authored by the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Education, which dates back to 2017. [1][2][4] Then, what if we compared this to actions that may occur in other regulated markets such as finance or capital markets/emerging technology, where it can be safely surmised that not having a contract in place, nor oversight mechanisms, nor even metrics for efficacy would promote ‘bad actors.” Would your opinion change? [3] It is my goal in writing this, to inform you on the education policy, and school funding mechanisms that surround this issue past…