It is being reported in various locations that the Florida school district in which the latest shooting episode took place had a policy which allowed it to happen. That policy was one of reducing juvenile crime statistics by dealing with teen infractions as school discipline problems, instead of as crimes.
Because of that policy, it is reported serial bad actor Nikolas Cruz had no criminal record and was able to pass a background check to legally buy the guns he had. Absent that policy, he would have failed a background check. Cruz was doubly protected because of his adoptive Hispanic family name, although he is not such by birth.
Policies like this were forced on school districts, including one in the MN Twin Cities, by the Obama DOE which believed black and Hispanic students were disproportionally targeted for discipline because of their race. That such students simply perpetrate many more infractions per capita is a truth the Obama DOE wouldn’t admit as it didn’t fit their victimization narrative.
It is likely we’ll see several more examples of the perverse unintended consequences of these see-no-evil policies before we can get them eliminated. We can hope no more mass shootings result, but that is far from a sure thing.
