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    Amid school crime spike, task force wants LA campuses to decide whether they need police

    LOS ANGELES — Amid steeply escalating school crime, drug use and fighting, individual Los Angeles public school campuses should be allowed to decide whether to station a police officer on campus, a safety task force said, a recommendation that, if adopted, would reverse wins by anti-police student activists but respond to calls by many parents to restore officers. Recent practice in the L.A. ...
    by Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times May 06, 2024 4 minutes
    A parent holds a“ Bring Back School Police” sign during a regional campus safety meeting May 2, 2024, at Patrick Henry Middle School in Granada Hills.

    LOS ANGELES — Amid steeply escalating school crime, drug use and fighting, individual Los Angeles public school campuses should be allowed to decide whether to station a police officer on campus, a safety task force said, a recommendation that, if adopted, would reverse wins by anti-police student activists but respond to calls by many parents to restore officers.

    Recent practice in the L.A. Unified School District has been to keep police off campus. Instead, school police — a department paid for and operated by the school system — patrol areas around schools and respond to emergency calls off and on campus.

    The task force, established by the Board of Education, has operated quietly during the current school year against a backdrop of rising

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