Three Chicago aldermen introduced an ordinance Monday to remove police officers from the city’s public schools.
The group of aldermen introduced the measure as protests against police brutality continue across Chicago, some calling specifically to remove officers from schools, and around the world following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.
The new measure introduced Monday says that the city and the Chicago Board of Education entered into an agreement in late 2019 to allow CPD to place officers in Chicago Public Schools.
The ordinance states that at least 180 uniformed Chicago police officers are in 76 Chicago Public Schools each day under the agreement, carrying “2 loaded guns and 4 magazines of 15 bullets, 1 canister of pepper spray, 1 taser and 2 taser cartridges, 1 expandable baton, and 1 pair of handcuffs each.”
Officers in schools have received at least 2,354 complaints of misconduct, according to the ordinance, which says the police presence “creates dangerous conditions for students “that have led to the criminalization, mass incarceration, harassment, death, and heinous use of force against Brown and predominantly Black students.”
