Vice President Kamala Harris called for removing police officers from schools in 2019 to address racial disparities in student discipline, according to comments she made during her first presidential campaign.
In an interview while running for president in 2019, then-Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) argued for eliminating police presence on campuses to address racial inequality.
In recently resurfaced footage from the event, Harris expresses concern about disproportionate suspension and expulsion rates for Black and brown students and calls for a reevaluation of how discipline is enforced in schools.
“What we need to do to demilitarize schools, get police out of schools, we need to be real and tell the truth about the inequities around school discipline,” she said. “Black and brown boys, in particular, are being expelled and suspended as early as elementary school.”
Her remarks came at the Presidential Justice Forum at Benedict University in South Carolina, where she outlined her vision for criminal justice reform, including reducing juvenile incarceration, which she described as “traumatic,” and ending solitary confinement for minors.
Her comments sparked a backlash online, with many expressing concern about the safety implications of her proposal.
“Why would she want to put our children at risk?” Donald Trump Jr. asked.
“This is insane,” radio talk show host Clay Travis responded. “I want police in every school and I'm happy to have police in my kids' school.”
“This is sickening,” Parkland parent Andrew Pollack wrote. “My daughter was killed because of inadequate security at Parkland.”
“We need more School Resource Officers, not fewer!” he added.
“Kamala's policies show how much she hates police,” argued Richard Grenell, a former senior Trump administration official and former U.S. ambassador to Germany.
“Once the public realizes how extreme Kamala is, it's over,” podcast host Cash Lauren wrote.
Harris's stance on school demilitarization was part of a broader criminal justice reform agenda she promoted during the 2020 presidential election.
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But crime Rapid increase Progressives' endless crusade against the police has eroded trust in law enforcement, lowered police morale, and led to a mass exodus of officers.
After police budgets were cut in many Democratic cities, murder rates rose This is expected to reach 16 percent in major U.S. cities by 2021. Bleeding Over the next few years.
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Violent crime continues to rise in big cities, Los Angeles and New York City Both states have cut funding for police departments and adopted soft-on-crime “bail reform” that allows repeat offenders to return to the streets.
In response, the Democratic Party began to distance itself from the policies it had promoted, and at one point Condemnation Republicans who support defunding the police.
Similarly, several school districts across the country responded to protests over the death of George Floyd by cutting ties with police, but then concerns about school violence grew and some districts reinstated school resource officers.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter. Joshua Klein.
