The council approved a budget last year that would gradually remove the school resource officer program by 2025. Bowser’s latest budget proposal calls for restoring the program to its original size.
recommended that the city remove police from schools, arguing that having armed officers in schools creates a culture of fear and policing in them. Some city leaders dismissed the findings of the commission, suggesting that it reflected the view of activists not the community.The city employed 97 school resource officers who floated between traditional public and charter schools last academic year. This year, there are 80 officers.
“Scaling back police presence in schools is essential to protecting young people and prioritizing safe education spaces, particularly for students of color and students with disabilities,” sent to the D.C. Council Wednesday during budget hearings and signed by 40 community groups seeking to abolish police in local schools. “Black students are more likely to be arrested at school for normal adolescent behavior than their white counterparts.Council member Charles Allen — who chairs the judiciary and public safety committee and pushed to phase out police in schools — has not said how he would handle the mayor’s proposal. Council members Christina Henderson , Robert C. White Jr.
During the budget hearings this week, Police Chief Robert J. Contee III and D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee continued to defend policing in schools. Both have cited at the hearing and in interviews a rise in violent incidents as students in the District and across the country struggle to readjust to being in classrooms after learning from home for so long during the pandemic.
Contee said gun seizures in schools are increasing. The police chief testified that he recently received a phone call from a council member, who he did not identify, who said teachers were afraid in their school building, and told him: “There are no police officers in that school.”The now controversial school police program was created after a student was shot inside Ballou High in Southeast Washington in 2004 and later died in the hospital.
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