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February 28, 2018
Nikolas Cruz's psychosis ended in a bloody massacre not only because of the
stunning incompetence of the Broward County Sheriff's Department. It was
also the result of liberal insanity working exactly as it was intended to.
School and law enforcement officials knew Cruz was a ticking time bomb. They
did nothing because of a deliberate, willful, bragged-about policy to end
the "school-to-prison pipeline." This is the feature part of the story, not
the bug part.
If Cruz had taken out full-page ads in the local newspapers, he could not
have demonstrated more clearly that he was a dangerous psychotic. He
assaulted students, cursed out teachers, kicked in classroom doors, started
fist fights, threw chairs, threatened to kill other students, mutilated
small animals, pulled a rifle on his mother, drank gasoline and cut himself,
among other "red flags."
Over and over again, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
reported Cruz's terrifying behavior to school administrators, including
Kelvin Greenleaf, "security specialist," and Peter Mahmood, head of JROTC.
At least three students showed school administrators Cruz's near-constant
messages threatening to kill them -- e.g., "I am going to enjoy seeing you
down on the grass," "Im going to watch ypu bleed," "iam going to shoot you
dead” — including one that came with a photo of Cruz’s guns. They warned
school authorities that he was bringing weapons to school. They filed
written reports.
Threatening to kill someone is a felony. In addition to locking Cruz away
for a while, having a felony record would have prevented him from purchasing
a gun.
All the school had to do was risk Cruz not going to college, and depriving
Yale University of a Latino class member, by reporting a few of his felonies
-- and there would have been no mass shooting.
But Cruz was never arrested. He wasn't referred to law enforcement. He wasn'
t even expelled.
Instead, Cruz was just moved around from school to school -- six transfers
in three years. But he was always sent back to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School, in order to mainstream him, so that he could get a good job someday
!
The moronic idea behind the "school-to-prison pipeline" is that the only
reason so many "black and brown bodies" are in prison is because they were
disciplined in high school, diminishing their opportunities. End the
discipline and ... problem solved!
It's like "The Wizard of Oz" in reverse. The Wizard told the Scarecrow: You
don't need an education, you just need a diploma! The school-to-prison
pipeline idiocy tells students: You don't need to behave in high school, you
just need to leave with no criminal record!
Of course, killjoys will say that removing the consequences of bad behavior
only encourages more bad behavior. But that's not the view of Learned
Professionals, who took summer courses at Michigan State Ed School.
In a stroke of genius, they realized that the only problem criminals have is
that people keep lists of their criminal activities. It's the list that
prevents them from getting into M.I.T. and designing space stations on Mars.
Where they will cure cancer.
This primitive, stone-age thinking was made official Broward County policy
in a Nov. 5, 2013, agreement titled "Collaborative Agreement on School
Discipline."
The first "whereas" clause of the agreement states that "the use of arrests
and referrals to the criminal justice system may decrease a student's chance
of graduation, entering higher education, joining the military and getting
a job."
Get it? It's the arrest -- not the behavior that led to the arrest -- that
reduces a student's chance at a successful life. (For example, just look at
how much the district's refusal to arrest Nikolas Cruz helped him!)
The agreement's third "whereas” clause specifically cites "students of
color" as victims of the old, racist policy of treating criminal behavior
criminally.
Say, in the middle of a drive to cut back on the arrest or expulsion of "
students of color," how do you suppose the school dealt with a kid named "
Nikolas Cruz"? Might there be some connection between his Hispanic last name
and the school's abject refusal to do anything about Cruz's repeated
criminal behavior?
Just a few months ago, the superintendent of Broward County Public Schools,
Robert W. Runcie, was actually bragging about how student arrests had
plummeted under his bold leadership.
When he took over in 2011, the district had "the highest number of school-
related arrests in the state." But today, he boasted, Broward has "one of
the lowest rates of arrest in the state." By the simple expedient of
ignoring criminal behavior, student arrests had declined by a whopping 78
percent.
FOOTBALL COACH: "When I took over this team a year ago, we were last in the
league in pass defense. Today, we no longer keep that statistic!"
When it comes to spectacular crimes, it's usually hard to say how it could
have been prevented. But in this case, we have a paper trail. In the pursuit
of a demented ideology, specific people agreed not to report, arrest or
prosecute dangerous students like Nikolas Cruz.
These were the parties to the Nov. 5, 2013, agreement that ensured Cruz
would be out on the street with full access to firearms:
Robert W. Runcie, Superintendent of Schools
Peter M. Weinstein, Chief Judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit
Michael J. Satz, State Attorney
Howard Finkelstein, Public Defender
Scott Israel, Broward County Sheriff
Franklin Adderley, Chief of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department
Wansley Walters, Secretary of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
Marsha Ellison, President of the Fort Lauderdale Branch of the NAACP and
Chair of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board
Nikolas Cruz may be crazy, but the parties to that agreement are crazy, too.
They decided to make high school students their guinea pigs for an
experiment based on a noxious ideology. The blood of 17 people is on their
hands.
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