“I work for Community Passageways, which is CVI work—community violence intervention. And this actual incident happened on the day that we were at a gun violence conference. So, I think that having CVI work—community violence intervention—would allow us to have less police presence. But do I think we can do without it? No. I think with the state of gun violence that we should have some. I don’t think it should be an overwhelming presence, because I feel like a police presence can be intimidating. But with the amount of gun violence that is happening in and around our communities and in and around the schools and our children—absolutely.”
“No. I think that a community presence is needed—someone that can connect to these young people doesn’t need to be in a uniform. Someone from the community that understands what they’re going through. I think they need that presence inside the school, but no to a police presence.”
“I do think we should have police, especially if our kids that look like me are living in the community where they’re dying. If that’s what makes them safe, yes.”
“I believe that police should be in the schools. As a mother of a slain 16-year-old, I just feel like it would protect our living babies.”
“Do I think Seattle Police should be in the schools? Absolutely. For this time and this age, we need to keep our babies safe, and we need a better future.”
“I absolutely agree that they should have a presence in the Seattle Public Schools at this point, because it’s hard to be a kid right now, from my observation. Kids are getting killed, kids are getting shot at schools. There’s a lot of violence that is there, and I think that in order to deter that, they’re going to either have to have a presence with police actively there or implement, maybe, metal detectors. It’s gotten to that point. It wasn’t like that when I was in high school, but at this point, it’s on the news every other week. So, I just think that we’ve got to do something to try to deter these kids from being so violent with one another.”
