{"id":15834,"date":"2025-03-20T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T19:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15834"},"modified":"2025-03-20T19:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T19:56:36","slug":"mps-finally-puts-cops-back-in-crime-ridden-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15834","title":{"rendered":"MPS finally puts cops back in crime-ridden schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/mps-finally-puts-cops-back-in-crime-ridden-schools\/<\/a><\/p>\n

What took them so long?<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Years after we first reported on daily calls to police from MPS high schools<\/a>, the Milwaukee Public Schools finally obeyed a judge\u2019s order and placed cops back in the hallways this week. Twenty-five officers are back in 11 schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The only remaining question is what took so long.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was way back in June 2023 that Milwaukee leaders reached a deal with legislators<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, some cities elsewhere started putting cops back into schools long ago, the Badger Institute\u2019s Mark Lisheron reported in May 2023<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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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,\u201d he reported.\u202f<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSworn officers\u202f<\/em>returned to Denver schools<\/em><\/a>\u202fin March, one day after a high school student\u202f<\/em>shot and wounded<\/em><\/a>\u202ftwo administrators and killed himself.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Denver Public Schools board, which voted unanimously to remove officers in 2020 were unanimous in putting them back after the shootings and suicide.<\/em><\/p>\n

Schools in Montgomery County, MD and Alexandria, VA (also) approved restoring patrols after violent incidents.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Progressive\u00a0coalitions 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<\/em>\u202ftracked the decisions<\/em><\/a>\u202fthough June 2022.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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