Even With ‘Defund the Police’ Discredited, Some Schools May Still Shun the Police

Even With ‘Defund the Police’ Discredited, Some Schools May Still Shun the Police
NYPD officers patrol inside Times Square station in New York on May 6, 2020. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
Vince Bielski
RealClearInvestigations
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Des Moines this week suffered its first fatal school shooting—reigniting a controversy in the city after the district removed police officers from its schools last year.

Police say a group of teenagers in vehicles outside Des Moines’ East High School fired multiple rounds onto school property on Monday, killing a 15-year-old boy and critically wounding two female students who were bystanders. Six teenagers, some of them current Des Moines students, have been charged with first-degree murder.

Vince Bielski, a former senior editor at Bloomberg, reports on the environment, clean energy, education, and immigration for RealClearInvestigations. His work has appeared in Bloomberg, Spin, Mercury News (San Jose), San Francisco Focus, and many other publications.
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