From NYCLU: How Giulaini established fascist police control over NYC Public Schools

Possible presidency for GOP front-runner Rudy Giuliani ought to be a nightmare for poor and/or minority parents and for educators nationwide. Giulani proposed replacing unarmed School Security Officers with uniformed police within days of having been elected mayor. By the end of his administration, he had created a "railroad" to prison system that in effect partly governs schools from Police Headquarters and imposes prison-like arbitrary control over tens of thousands of NYC students and teachers. Teachers have been ARRESTED in retaliation for standing up to uniformed martinets who report to Police Headquarters:

From the NYCLU at http://www.nyclu.org/pdfs/criminalizing_the_classroom_report.pdf :

"Criminalizing the Classroom -- The Over-Policing of New York City Schools

... Since the NYPD took control of school safety in 1998, the number of policepersonnel in schools and the extent of their activity have skyrocketed. At the start of the 2005-2006 school year, the city employed a total of 4,625 School Safety Agents (SSAs) and at least 200 armed police officers assigned exclusively to schools. These numbers would make the NYPD's School Safety Division alone the tenth largest police force in the country--larger than the police forces of Washington, D.C., Detroit, Boston, or Las Vegas.

Because these school-assigned police personnel are not directly subject to the supervisory authority of school administrators, and because they often have not been adequately trained to work in educational settings, SSAs and police officers often arrogate to themselves authority that extends well beyond the narrow mission of securing the safety of the students and teachers. They enforce school rules relating to dress and appearance. They make up their own rules regarding food or other objects that havenothing whatsoever to do with school safety. On occasion they subject educators who question the NYPD's treatment of students to retaliatory arrests. More routinely, according to our interviews and survey, they subject students to inappropriate treatment including:

--derogatory, abusive and discriminatory comments and conduct;

--intrusive searches;

--unauthorized confiscation of students' personal items, including food, cameras and essential school supplies;

--inappropriate sexual attention;

--physical abuse; and

--arrest for minor non-criminal violations of school rules.

These types of police interventions create flashpoints for confrontations and divert students and teachers from invaluable classroom time. They make students feel diminished, and are wholly incompatible with a positive educational environment."

See also Joanne98's excellent "Greatest" page thread at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x287118 .

This is a must-read and should be the stuff that the media is reporting about Ghouliana, not the "strong-on-terror" horseshit that's out there.

temper and more convincing cover stories for his screw-ups.

And if you think that government is full of corrupt, inept cronies now, imagine what the Ghoul's administration would look like. I shudder to think of it. :scared:

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