Toronto Crime Stoppers

you forget so quickly

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http://Facebook.com/ScotMills -- thnx for the add..

any reward????

rewards from Crime Stoppers are up to $2,000 depending on how important the info received is.... only 200 of the 1000 tips we are getting per month are contacting Crime Stoppers back wanting their reward... FYI

The file is purposely large for good quality printing, so it will take a moment to open, but here is the link:

http://makelifehappen.ca/Mariam_Flyer.pdf

Please share. Thx.

scary how this young girl could get involved with this.Hopefully she will surrender before something bad happens to her.

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Wish I met these vip ppl lols

thanks for advancing the discussion Randy. i note that this thread is introduced by a report suggesting that the SRO program doesn't make students feel any safer. and how the students feel matters. see the footnotes.

let's also note that SRO programs across north america have been on the increase since the 1960s. is this what a successful public health/policy corrective measure looks like?

the answer is no, no, no. if you set out to eradicate polio, you expect to see a decrease of incidence over the life of your program. if this does not occur, public health officials are bound by oath, science and professionalism to immediately halt such programs.... See More

SRO programs ostensibly exist to eradicate school physical safety issues. yet for 35+ years we have seen these programs expand in school after school, domino like.

this is not success my friends. this is failure.

administrators of these programs would have us judge their efficacy by examining crime statistics. but their overall efficacy is better measured by counting the number of schools with SRO programs from year to year. this number has been increasing constantly for 35+ years!!

we simply don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows here. the SRO program by itself cannot and does not address the root causes of school safety, does not make the students feel safer, and functions as a means of misdirecting parents, other stakeholders AND FUNDS in the quest to educate and protect children.

again i say that school violence and crime puts educators, students and other school employees at risk of developing health problems up to and including death.

once again, i argue that this is a public health issue taking the form of drug addiction, blunt force trauma, puncture wounds, gunshot wounds, depressive and behavioral disorders and death.

again i say that if we value our children, we must declare a public health emergency with each stabbing, each incident of bullying, each incident of teacher abuse. the full public must be mobilized and compelled to become part of the solution, to close ranks around the victim and the perpetrator alike.

and we must redouble our personal effort on addressing root causes, we must support policy makers and policies that address root causes, we must dedicate the time it takes to creating a safe environment for each other's children, and thereby our society at large.

policing our schools is too important a job to be left to the police alone!

law enforcement and school officials alike recognize that schools are the canaries in the societal coal mine. students who participated in the south african uprising? a 'lost' cohort. the palestinian intifada? another lost cohort. afghanistan, ireland, liberia, this is an extensive list.

the expanding SRO program is a tacit admission that schools in toronto are being added to this assemblage of ignominy. and by itself the SRO program cannot roll back this problem.

let's find another way.

footnotes
* school safety policy researcher, with account on facebook. http://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enCA316CA316&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=russ+skiba
* critical thinking about zero tolerance policies in schools
http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?rlz=1C1GGLS_enCA316CA316&sourceid=chrome&q=zero%20tolerance%20in%20schools&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=ws
* law enforcement's role in school safety
http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=police+school+safety&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0