Police are still ticketing students in Illinois schools. A new bill would make that illegal. – Chicago Tribune/MSN

The new legislation would amend the state’s school code to make it illegal for school personnel to involve police to issue students citations for incidents that can be addressed through a school’s disciplinary process. “We have to close that loophole and end school-based ticketing,” said Rep. La Shawn Ford. “There is no place for this type of system to be in our schools.”
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Old Joe
3 years ago

Hmm, I never got a ticket from a nun. I got a smack!

Goodgulf Greyteeth
3 years ago
Reply to  Old Joe

Well, that explains your comments.

You’ve been beaten and traumatized Joe.

Those evil nuns.

You need a social worker. Maybe two or three. And some therapy, and a hot cup of non-GMO sustainably grown treebank-n-bean sprout herbal tea.

Poor man…..

Pat S.
3 years ago

And … compensation for his trauma. Never forget the $.

alfrmcgo
3 years ago

LaShawn defending his community..the criminals.

debtsor
3 years ago
Reply to  alfrmcgo

I believe this is what he was elected to do. As I’ve repeated said here, getting ‘tough on crime’ means ‘arresting and incarcerating more BIPOC/minorities”. The black community, for the most part, is opposed to arresting and incarcerating more black people. Their solutions to crime mostly involve, let’s call it…..self-help…which is why few in the community cooperate with police to prosecute crime. Guys like LaShawn and Brandon Johnson have progressive ideas how to solve crime, like this school administrative process, or Healing Houses, and social workers. This might work good for the messed up kid who is vandalizing property or… Read more »

Giddyap
3 years ago

CPS banned police from schools all over the city — how’s that working out?

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