Did the Progressive 'Broward County Solution' Cost 17 Student Lives?
""We're
not compromising school safety. We're really saving the lives of
kids," boasted Michaelle Valbrun-Pope, executive director of Student
Support Initiatives for Broward County Public Schools, in August 2017.
Valbrun-Pope was referring to what an article by Jeffrey Benzing in Public Source calls the "Broward County Solution." As
Benzing relates, Broward County used to lead the state of Florida in
sending students to the state's juvenile justice system. County leaders
responded with a perfectly progressive solution: "lower arrests by not
making arrests."
Authorities
agreed to treat twelve different misdemeanor offenses as school-related
issues, not criminal ones. The results impressed the people who
initiated the program. Arrests dropped from more than a thousand in
2011-2012 to less than four hundred just four years later."
[American Thinker]
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