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For the past decade I have been studying how we police schools and punish students. My recent book, "The Real School Safety Problem," and a growing body of other studies point to the fact that, indeed, schools ask police to do too much in schools."We're asking cops to do too much in this country... Every societal failure, we put it off on the cops to solve. Not enough mental health funding, let the cops handle it. ... Schools fail, let's give it to the cops. ... "
"What would you do if you were elected about Aleppo?" Mike Barnicle asked Gary Johnson on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
"About?" Johnson asked.
"Aleppo," Barnicle repeated, referring to Syria's second-largest city, which has been hit in recent weeks by a series of devastating chemical gas attacks and targeted bombing strikes on its few remaining medical facilities.
"And what is Aleppo?" Johnson asked sunnily, to the astonishment of the "Morning Joe" hosts.
"You're kidding," Barnicle said.
Following his Aleppo flub this morning, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson has issued a statement:This morning, I began my day by setting aside any doubt that I'm human. Yes, I understand the dynamics of the Syrian conflict — I talk about them every day. But hit with "What about Aleppo?", I immediately was thinking about an acronym, not the Syrian conflict. I blanked. It happens, and it will happen again during the course of this campaign.Can I name every city in Syria? No. Should I have identified Aleppo? Yes. Do I understand its significance? Yes.While some presidential candidates might have claimed it was a sexist question, attempted to distract from the question with ad hominem attacks, or blamed past medical problems, libertarian Gary Johnson offered a refreshingly honest statement basically saying, "sorry, I am human."
As Governor, there were many things I didn't know off the top of my head. But I succeeded by surrounding myself with the right people, getting to the bottom of important issues, and making principled decisions. It worked. That is what a President must do. That would begin, clearly, with daily security briefings that, to me, will be fundamental to the job of being President.
An armed robbery in Phoenix, Arizona has ended with police fatally shooting a suspect on live television.
In the aftermath of a raid on a Credit Union West branch on Tuesday, a number of local TV stations, including NBC 12 News and Fox 10 Phoenix, were broadcasting dramatic live footage of the chase when the disturbing events unfolded.
Video of the moment police used deadly force has now emerged online. It shows officers in three unmarked SUVs carrying out what is known as a 'PIT maneuver' - or precision immobilization technique - to ensnare the getaway vehicle.
The arrangement comes roughly nine months after the university's Black Student Union issued a set of demands in response to what its members contend are frequent "racist attacks" on campus, such as "racially insensitive remarks" and "microaggressions" by professors and students. One demand was for a "CSLA housing space delegated for Black students."
Cal State LA joins UConn, UC Davis and Berkeley in offering segregated housing dedicated to black students. While these housing options are technically open to all students, they're billed and used as arrangements in which black students can live with one another.
Meanwhile, at Cal State LA, campus leaders took down much of the online information on the new housing that it posted in late July. And university housing officials and other campus officials rebuffed requests by The College Fix for more details.
If campus leaders are proud of the new housing, they appear disinclined to talk about it.
CSULA's Housing Services page offers one paragraph on the new black living-learning community, calling it an effort to "enhance the residential experience for students who are a part of or interested in issues of concern to the black community living on campus by offering the opportunity to connect with faculty and peers, and engage in programs that focus on academic success, cultural awareness, and civic engagement."
In addition to the Black Student Union's housing demand, the group also demanded a $30 million dollar scholarship endowment to aid black students, three new black faculty counselors, a new anti-discrimination policy and cultural competency course for faculty and students, and finally, a meeting with the president for them to discuss the "fulfillment and implementation of each demand."
Comment: Schools are becoming more like prisons as American kids are now subject to the same violent police behavior that plagues the rest of the criminal justice system. Children are being searched, spied on, threatened, beaten and treated like criminals for the most minor infractions making them easy targets for the private prison industry, which profits from criminalizing childish behavior.