When Nikolas
Cruz murdered 14 of his fellow students and 3 staff members at a
Florida high school, there were a lot of questions and hand wringing
over how this could have happened. How could he have passed a
background check to purchase guns, especially since he had already
committed a string of arrestable
offenses on campus? It was widely assumed that the massacre
had simply been a failure of law enforcement officials. But
RealClearInvestigations cites a deliberate Obama policy of allowing
thousands of troubled, often violent, students to commit crimes
without legal consequence.
“He
[Cruz] had a clean record, so alarm bells didn’t go off when they
looked him up in the system,” said veteran FBI agent Michael
Biasello. “Once the agent, or any officer, entered his name in the
NCIC system, his history would have been viewed. He probably
wouldn’t have been able to buy the murder weapon if the school had
referred him to law enforcement."
Broward school
Superintendent Robert W. Runcie had close ties to Obama and his
Education Department. He worked closely with Obama's Education
Secretary Arne Duncan, and Runcie's applications for federal grants
factored in tens of millions of dollars in federal funding for
Duncan's department.
Asserting that minority
students were treated unfairly, “Runcie’s goal was to slash
arrests and ensure that students, no matter how delinquent, graduated
without criminal records,” says RealClearInvestigations.
RCI continues, “Broward
County Sheriff Scott Israel backed Runcie’s plan to diminish the
authority of police in responding to campus crime. A November 2013
video shows him signing the district’s 16-page “collaborative
agreement on school discipline,” which lists more than a dozen
misdemeanors that can no longer be reported to police, along with
five steps police must “exhaust” before even considering placing
a student under arrest.
“In just a few
years, ethnically diverse Broward went from leading the state of
Florida in student arrests to boasting one of its lowest
school-related incarceration rates. Out-of-school suspensions and
expulsions also plummeted.”
“Broward
County adopted a lenient disciplinary policy similar to those adopted
by many other districts under pressure from the Obama administration
to reduce racial ‘disparities’ in suspensions and expulsions,”
said Peter Kirsanow, a black conservative on the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights in Washington. “In many of these districts, the
drive to 'get our numbers right' has produced disastrous results,
with startling increases in both the number and severity of
disciplinary offenses, including assaults and beatings of teachers
and students.”
For
example, notes RCI, “In St. Paul, Minn., a high school science
teacher was “beaten
and choked out” by a 16-year-old student, who allegedly came up
behind him, called him a “f--king white cracker,” and put him in
a stranglehold, before bashing his head into a concrete wall and
pavement. The student, Fon’Tae
O’Bannon, got 90 days of electronic home monitoring and anger
management counseling for the December 2015 attack. No jail time. No
criminal record.
