A dramatically diminished L.A. school police force under proposed cuts [latimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 9/21/209:01 AM

By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2020

Two months after a divided Los Angeles Unified school board slashed funding for its police department by more than a third, the contours of a dramatically diminished force emerged this week.

Under a plan presented to the board on Tuesday, police officers would be removed from school campuses and weekend patrols meant to protect schools from vandalism would be eliminated, among other cuts.

The debate over the proposed cuts, set for later this month, marks a wide split on the board over the role that armed, uniformed officers should play in providing security to hundreds of thousands of students enrolled at more than 900 campuses.

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