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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,933 posts) Sat Jun 13, 2020, 12:26 PM Jun 2020

L.A. schools police will return grenade launchers but keep rifles, armored vehicle

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So, it seems fair to say the Los Angeles Unified School District's police force needs neither "three grenade launchers" (which are being returned) nor a "Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Armored Vehicle" (which it intends to keep).

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L.A. schools police will return grenade launchers but keep rifles, armored vehicle (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 OP

School police? Sanity Claws Jun 2020 #1

Why on God's green earth would a school district police force ever have needed The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #2

So this tells me that there is a lot of room to reshape the police by reducing their numbers, Squinch Jun 2020 #3

If they want to play soldier they should take their toys and play elsewhere. MarcA Jun 2020 #4

Sanity Claws

(22,038 posts)

1. School police?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 12:30 PM

Jun 2020

LA has money for that? Does it have money for school nurses, school counselors? How many teachers per student in the LA school system?

The Velveteen Ocelot

(120,824 posts)

2. Why on God's green earth would a school district police force ever have needed

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 12:30 PM

Jun 2020

grenade launchers in the first place? If they were offered in the first place why did they even take them? Why wouldn't it be something like, "Do you want some grenade launchers?" "No, thanks, we don't need grenade launchers. Or armored vehicles, for that matter." And while we're at it, why is there even a school district police force?

Squinch

(52,736 posts)

3. So this tells me that there is a lot of room to reshape the police by reducing their numbers,

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 12:52 PM

Jun 2020

de-militarizing them, and having them respond only to violent crime.

Let's do those things before we talk about abolishing them and we all put on our Lord of the Flies outfits.

MarcA

(2,195 posts)

4. If they want to play soldier they should take their toys and play elsewhere.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 01:14 PM

Jun 2020

Why would anyone want to go to a school where such items were actually needed?

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