School Problems
So late last year, the CPS made an offer to school principals - reduce your police presence by one officer and get a budgetary line item worth x-thousands of dollars (we heard anywhere from $25,000 up to $30,000.) Cut your police contingent out completely and you get an extra $50,000 to spend.
Some schools did exactly that and now we have to wonder what the fallout is:
Some schools did exactly that and now we have to wonder what the fallout is:
A 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by a schoolmate, who also injured another student, inside a far South Side alternative high school Thursday morning.
The teenager believed to be the perpetrator, who is also 17, is in Chicago police custody following the 7:30 a.m. incident outside the AMIkids Infinity high school, 10211 S. Crandon, said Chicago Police Officer Robert Perez.
The victim, Chris Wormely, was the intended target of the attack, a police source said. Chicago police are still searching for the weapon, sources said. Wormely was standing in line for a patdown inside the school when the attacker rushed at him and stabbed him, police and his family said.
Does anyone know if this "alternative" high school had a police presence prior to the cash offer? We got an e-mail from a west side officer who said his district is handling double the calls at one particular high school since they ended the two-man detail at the school. Is this another case of "penny wise; pound foolish?"
Labels: crime
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
18 Comments:
SCC, did you notice ch.5 news at 5pm and 6pm...top story, they were interviewing some f/1 at the school where the boy was killed...a yellow school bus drives by very slowly in the background with a huge pitch fork spray painted on the side of it. Hilarious!
Penny wise dollar foolish. Let these fucks kill each other off and let the city leaders figure it out.
I don't know if a school officer could have prevented this. Animals will be animals.
I was under the impression it's not a CPS SCHOOL, it's a special needs private school housed in a former CPS building. If that is all true I would assume there were no CPD officers assigned
When the full time school unit was eliminated there was a rash of school killings. No one in the press connected them to the closing of the school unit. I've taken loaded guns out of back packs inside schools, on the north side!
Can Chalkie be far behind?
It's really not an alternative school.The CPS hires private clout companies to house unruly students in a private setting.Did you see the"Principal"? This town is a fuckin joke.
A suprise ? Nothing new here
Alternative school is code for lets throw more money at the worst of the worst who do not even want an education, but deprive children who really try hard and work their buts off from a quality education because they live in tier 4. I am about to explode!
This is a new alternative school and it never had school officer's assigned. Most of the alternative schools in 004 are good about handling their own business, I guess someone fell asleep at the metal detector.
what about a dress code
did ya notice the director of school , only in cps
cut teacher pay , hire baby sitters
Julian High School gave up one officer but the 22nd District still sends two officers to the school. Julian made the smart move, they get the money and CPS does not have to pay for the second officer. The taxpayers on 2211 beat just lost another body.
This school was for children with emotional issues and violence was one of them. If they were foolish enough to give up their security to save money; a lawsuit will follow and the Ghetto Lottery will pay. Once again, a Ghetto parent and a suburban lawyer will win at Chicago taxpayers expense.
Waiting in line for a pat down?
Huh?
They don't do that at my kid's school...
This charter operation is in the former Goldsmith public school building.
They must have had hundreds of students -- now "Infinity School" has only about 25 "special needs" students (some of whom are 17 years old) and 15 staff.
Around 1.5 to 1 student-to-staff ratio -- that does not include police all the time -- and they STILL can't keep the lid on!
State of Illinois operates prison work camps holding 400 grown men, and I don't think they have 15 staff there at one time!
It's something, huh?
What are the prospects here? Hey, Rahm -- is this whole operation in your "25% Failure Club?"
No one should be surprised that a few high school principals would grab that offer, since for some of them, POs in the building would mean that they couldn't be the undisputed, all controlling, regent of their realm. Unfortunately, many don't have a clue about how to work with POs effectively, so that this scarce police resource is wasted, anyway.
Also, like all other political creatures in this City, they love to control those pesky crime stats. Like that Zen parable goes, "if a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one to hear it ...", in other words -- no police, no crimes. And, with no police around, there is no one to challenge outrageous disciplinary actions or inactions.
BUT, there are schools that do have sharp and knowledgeable principals, combined with sharp and knowledgeable school officers. It is a wonder to behold how well it works, and how much can be accomplished.
To the credit of both, principals and school officers, many such schools do exist.
It is an alternative school for kids with problems where this is their last resort. The school is funded by CPS and were advised to get security when they opened their doors almost a year ago. They have no metal detectors, just the hand wands.
Lets understand Rahms reasoning!
We need speed cameras in school zones,because if it SAVES JUST ONE CHILD IT WAS WORTH IT!!!
But we take all the police details out of the schools,
thereby reducing the on site availability,and deterrance effect that they would achieve!!
Why werent we worried that this police presence could SAVE JUST ONE CHILD!!!
BECAUSE RAHM ONLY WANTS MONEY!!!
ENJOY YOUR ONE TERM!!!!!
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!
Its not about childrens safety at all,its about squeezing every penny out of every person in the city!!!
Wait till visitors get these tickets! they will stop coming
here also!!!
You get what you pay for.
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