By Black Star News
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According to The City Newspaper, “The NYPD is transferring oversight of its 3,600 school safety agents from the Community Affairs Bureau to the office of Chief of Department John Chell.”
Given the problems that the NYPD already has in Black and Latino communities, the move is already facing criticism for the change.
Jake Martinez, deputy director of the Education Policy Center, at the New York Civil Liberties Union released the following statement:
“Mayor Adams’s decision to shift oversight of Student Safety Agents — notoriously the largest school police force in the country — to directly under NYPD brass is a dangerous move that will hurt students and make schools less safe.
“The NYPD has no place in our city’s classrooms. Every year in New York City, hundreds of students are suspended, arrested, and put in jail under the command of the NYPD. This dangerous practice puts students’ safety at risk, threatens their futures, and fuels the school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately funnels students of color into jail.
“Schools should be safe places for learning and growth, not danger zones where one wrong move could put a child in police custody. To truly achieve school safety, the city must remove the NYPD from our classrooms entirely and stop creating more opportunities to put children in handcuffs.”
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