Peel schools feel safer with police present: study, Jan. 11
Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder Sandy Hudson is attributed as having said the report on the Peel Region high school police program should have focused on the safety and well-being of racialized students.
Based on that statement, the position of Black Lives Matter is that the lives of the other students don’t matter.
Carlton professor Linda Duxbury concluded, “One dominant finding is that every single group of students benefited and felt safer over time.” I will remind Hudson that the whole program of placing police in schools in Toronto started with the death of Jordan Manners, who was a “racialized” student.
The advocacy of Black Lives Matter to remove the police presence in schools puts all students at risk to pursue a political agenda against police, whom we all need in society to protect the public. Toronto students are now left without the safety of police presence as a result of the Toronto District School Board’s senseless capitulation to this political agenda and sadly the issue will inevitably be revisited upon the next incident that results in the taking of life or in serious injury in the absence of police deterrence.
Larry Bukta, North York