“This should be a wake-up call to the mayor, the City Council and the Department of Education: There is a crisis in our schools because they put the police in charge of routine discipline that ought to be handled by educators,” said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the NYCLU. “We all want safe schools, but that means that our children must be kept safe by those assigned to protect them. There is systemic misconduct by police personnel in the schools and our children are paying the price.”
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