OK, so following that let’s get you into the opener from Jack Cashill … “Incompetence Wasn’t the Problem in Broward County”…

No one who follows the blogging collective known as the “Conservative Treehouse” will dispute my claim that its most prominent blogger, “Sundance” by name, is America’s best reporter.  I got to know Sundance doing research for my book on the Trayvon Martin shooting, If I Had a Son.  So instrumental was the research of Sundance and his colleagues that I made the “Treepers” the protagonists of the book.

Sundance’s research into the political dynamics of Martin’s Miami-Dade school system led him to expand his research into neighboring Broward County years before the Parkland shooting.  We communicated the day after that shooting.  We had a shared sense of what had gone wrong.  I detailed some of this last week in an article on what one public interest magazine called the “Broward County solution.”  In Broward County, they call it more modestly the “PROMISE Program.”

In November 2013, Sundance first reported that Broward County was “willing to jump on the diversionary bandwagon.”  As an attached Associated Press article noted, “One of the nation’s largest school districts has reached an agreement with law enforcement agencies and the NAACP to reduce the number of students being charged with crimes for minor offenses.”  The goal, as the article explained, was to create an alternative to the zero-tolerance policies then in place by giving principals, not law enforcement, the authority to determine the nature of the offense.

In a collaborative agreement among school officials and law enforcement, the presence of the NAACP might seem anomalous, but not in the Obama era, where considerations of race routinely shaped educational policy.  “One of the first things I saw was a huge differential in minority students, black male students in particular, in terms of suspensions and arrests,” Broward’s recently hired school superintendent, Robert Runcie, told the American Prospect.  A black American, Runcie assumed that the differential was due largely to some unspoken institutional bias against minorities.  As he saw it, these suspensions played a major role in the so-called “achievement gap” between white and minority students.

The spurious “same behavior” insinuation would put the onus on law enforcement to treat black students more gingerly than they would non-blacks.  To make the issue seem less stark, authorities cloaked the black American crime disparity with EEOC boilerplate about “students of color” and other presumably marginalized individuals.  Although nonsensical on the face of it – one is hard pressed to recall a crime spree by the disabled – this language opened the door for Nikolas de Jesus Cruz.  An adopted son of the late Roger and Linda Cruz, the future school shooter had a name that fit the “metrics” of the collaborative agreement, regardless of his DNA.

It is not hard to understand why Broward County officials would be eager to adopt this program.  Miami-Dade had been receiving all kinds of honors for its efforts to shut down the dread “school-to-prison” pipeline.  On February 15, 2012, Miami-Dade County Public Schools put out a press release citing a commendation the Miami-Dade Schools Police (M-DSPD) had recently received.  The Department of Juvenile Justice had singled out Miami-Dade for “dramatically decreasing” school-related “delinquency.”  Said M-DSPD Chief Charles Hurley, “Our mantra is education not incarceration.”

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‘Steelblue’ on the comments thread:
The failure of the social contract in America is stunning. The people are taxed for police services yet have no idea of the inside game. PROMISE, as it is called in Broward County, is efficiently ‘unpolicing’ the expectations of the citizenry. First, the ersatz Sheriff Israel has to be thrown over the side. He is a pension liability in a uniform with no clue how to lead a department or serve the people. The main concern appears to be to protect the record of the police and school. Extra grant money for good numbers. The miscreants are just along for the ride. That’s even worse. I submit that this child (Cruz) was not protected, especially from himself, but used.[end]

Tragic all around.

Images of Obama, the Clinton Cabal, Gyorgy Schwartz-Soros and their acolytes colluding together in one of Obama’s (five or six, I lose count?) mansions down a-ways from the White House, bring shudders of revulsion to anyone?

The truth is in the big picture.

Thank God for President Donald J. Trump – MAGA!

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