What took them so long?
Years after we first reported on daily calls to police from MPS high schools, the Milwaukee Public Schools finally obeyed a judge’s order and placed cops back in the hallways this week. Twenty-five officers are back in 11 schools.
The only remaining question is what took so long.
It was way back in June 2023 that Milwaukee leaders reached a deal with legislators allowing both the city and the county to raise sales taxes in exchange for putting officers back in crime-ridden Milwaukee public schools by Jan. 1, 2024.
In the meantime, some cities elsewhere started putting cops back into schools long ago, the Badger Institute’s Mark Lisheron reported in May 2023.
Progressive city councils across the country are being forced by violence in and near their public schools to rethink their bans on stationing police officers on those campuses,” he reported.
“Sworn officers returned to Denver schools in March, one day after a high school student shot and wounded two administrators and killed himself.
The Denver Public Schools board, which voted unanimously to remove officers in 2020 were unanimous in putting them back after the shootings and suicide.
Schools in Montgomery County, MD and Alexandria, VA (also) approved restoring patrols after violent incidents.
Progressive coalitions ousted officers from more than 50 cities, large and small, after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, according to Education Week, which tracked the decisions though June 2022.”
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