Tuesday, March 06, 2018

Parkland Shooting: Did Obama-Era School Discipline Policies Enable It? | National Review

Parkland Shooting: Did Obama-Era School Discipline Policies Enable It? | National Review:

"Broward County had adopted guidelines designed in part to limit law-enforcement involvement with students, even those who posed a threat.
Image result for flickr commons images ObamaThe closer you look at the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., the more you realize that it might have been one of the most preventable significant crimes in recent American history. We’re familiar by now with the government’s sins of omission — how it failed to act time and again in the face of evidence that the shooter presented a clear and present danger to the public.
But how about a sin of commission? Did an Obama-era policy designed to reduce the “school-to-prison pipeline” prevent police from using available tools that could have stopped the shooting?"

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