#i know i'm preaching to the choir here but the police are not only useless but actively harmful.

[monstermoviedean]

well on one hand i'm no longer feeling numb to current events. on the other hand i'm no longer feeling numb to current events.

#cw violence #these tags get really upsetting please read at your own risk #i know i'm preaching to the choir here but the police are not only useless but actively harmful. #forty minutes before they got into the school #minimum. forty minutes minimum. #and in the meantime they were arresting and restraining family members who were trying to get into the school to save their kids #literally. that detail just came out last night. and i can't get over it. #they spent their time not trying to get in but preventing others from getting in. #and the armed sro did little to nothing. #i know people know sros are harmful but even statistically (not anecdotally) speaking the only things sros have been proven to do are #1) reduce small acts of violence (fights stabbings etc) and 2) increase rates of discipline suspension and expulsion for students of color #that's it. there's no statistical evidence that they do anything else. #like i knew they were worse than useless but i didn't realize there was actual data to back it up #most of them also get no school-specific training by the way. they're literally just cops plopped into schools. they know NOTHING about kids #and all this bs about how brave police are to put their lives on the line every day. when they didn't even go into the school right away. #they think their lives are more important than those of children. and they let those kids die. #i don't know how many they could have saved but. they could have acted so much faster. #i'm thinking about when my school did a lockdown drill and didn't tell us it was a drill so we would 'take it seriously' #and how terrified i was sitting there with 35 kids hiding out of sight thinking about how i'd have to charge a shooter if they came in. #it was 15-20 minutes and it was one of the most stressful experiences of my life. #and those kids and teachers sat there while the cops did worse than nothing. for minimum 40 minutes.