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*By Marjaan Sirdar / Unicorn Riot
<https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/minneapolis-teachers-union-cops-battle-over-student-recruitment/>*
Minneapolis, MN – A Minneapolis Public Schools teacher talked to Unicorn
Riot about the Minneapolis Police Department’s (MPD) newly created PEACE
Recruitment Program and the teachers union’s recent decision to oppose it.
*“The police are desperate now and they’re coming for our kids.”*
Minneapolis Public School Teacher and Union Member Jessica Garraway
Minneapolis North High School Special Education teacher and union board
member at-large Jessica Garraway brought the idea to the Minneapolis
Federation of Teachers (MFT59) to oppose the MPD’s PEACE Recruitment Plan
targeting high school students. She helped draft a resolution and bring it
to the body for a vote.
Garraway, a police abolitionist, participated in the Lake Street protests
outside of the Third Precinct in the days following George Floyd’s murder
by officer Derek Chauvin. She told Unicorn Riot that cops around the
country are in a* “crisis of legitimacy, especially in Minneapolis,” *where
she notes that the department is down a third in numbers with struggling
retention rates since Floyd’s murder.
MinnPost
<https://www.minnpost.com/public-safety/2022/10/police-staffing-shortages-persist-across-twin-cities-metro/>
recently
reported that there were 602 sworn officers, down from 900 in May 2020. The
activist educator cites that as an *“achievement* *won by the
movement”* following
Floyd’s murder.
On Dec. 16, 2022, MFT59 passed Garraway’s resolution
<https://www.mft59.org/press> opposing the MPD’s high school student
recruitment program. This comes more than two years after the Minneapolis
School Board voted to end its contract with MPD and take school resource
officers (SROs) out of Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) following the
murder of Floyd by former MPD officer Chauvin.
The following is an excerpt from the press release
<https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=529017279266513&set=a.481125000722408> by
MFT59:
*“The Minneapolis Police Department has a known track record of abuses
[against] people of color, highlighted especially by the killing of Black
men like George Floyd, Winston Smith and Jamar Clark in the communities in
which we serve. Also, in past youth recruitment efforts like the
Minneapolis [Explorers] Program, youth have reported being exposed to a
racist and sexist environment where sexual [harassment] was also
reported.” *
*Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, Local 59, Teacher Chapter*
Although most MFT59 board members are not abolitionists, Garraway said the
decision to oppose the PEACE program was clear for her colleagues.
*“I think most people can see the rot in the MPD. People lost faith in law
enforcement. Their whole job is to push people out of their homes and
communities. And folks are waking up to that. People now question before
they call 911.” *
Jessica Garraway, Special Ed. Teacher, MFT Board Member At-Large
The Minneapolis Police Department, at the direction of the Community Safety
Work Group appointed by Mayor Frey, has put forward a program to help
diversify the force. The department’s PEACE Recruitment Plan is a paid
internship for Minneapolis high school students to learn about and work
with the MPD in efforts to serve as a professional pathway into law
enforcement careers for students of color.
According to the City of Minneapolis’ website
<https://stories.opengov.com/minneapolismn/published/xGqKMZz3BUx>:
*“The PEACE Recruitment Plan provides participants paid part-time
employment to learn about public safety and the value of serving their
community. Internships can be a recruiting tool allowing potential recruits
to experience more facets of the profession thereby being able to evaluate
their interest early in the process.”*
*The City of Minneapolis *
The 21 member Community Safety Work Group chaired by civil rights attorney
and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong released their report
<https://www.minneapolismn.gov/media/-www-content-assets/documents/Community-Safety-Work-Group-Report-June-2022.pdf>
in
June 2022. The work group recommended increasing sworn officers to 888
by *“building
a pipeline of future candidates who live in the city of Minneapolis.”* One
primary strategy to accomplish this is by partnering police with MPS
to *“create
a K-12 public safety career pathway program,”*and provide support for *“career
fairs, field trips, and mentorship opportunities, to expose children to
careers in public safety.”*
Kaytie Kamphoff, an English teacher at Patrick Henry High School and
co-author of the resolution opposing the recruitment program, noted the
irony of the City of Minneapolis investing in a police pathway program for
Black and Brown students before adequately funding its teacher pathway
program.
*“A better ‘community pipeline’ [would] be…fully funding teacher pathway
programs in community high schools with large populations of Black, Latinx,
Hmong, Somali and Indigenous students,” *Kamphoff told the Southside Pride
<https://southsidepride.com/2022/10/03/police-youth-recruitment-plan-raises-concerns/>
newspaper.
Teachers say MPD are too dangerous to work with children and students have
repeatedly demanded that police not be employed inside schools. In April
2022 the Minnesota Department of Human Rights released a scathing report
<https://mn.gov/mdhr/assets/Investigation%20into%20the%20City%20of%20Minneapolis%20and%20the%20Minneapolis%20Police%20Department_tcm1061-526417.pdf>
establishing *“A pattern or practice of discrimination”* by Minneapolis
police against Black residents. The report laid out sweeping human rights
violations by MPD, including murder, non-lethal brutality, harassment,
spying, retaliation, and widespread use of racial slurs.
The report confirmed that it wasn’t a few *“bad apples.”*
*“MPD’s data demonstrates significant racial disparities with respect to
officers’ use of force, traffic stops, searches, citations, and arrests.
MPD officers used covert social media to surveil Black individuals and
Black organizations, unrelated to criminal activity…”*
Minnesota Department of Human Rights, Investigation into the City of
Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police Department
Kamphoff, also an abolitionist, takes exception to officials overlooking
MPD’s history of violence while putting forward the recruitment program for
high school students. *“It is wild that Mayor Frey is asking our Black and
Brown youth to engage and then enter a system that has systematically
harmed their bodies, minds, and souls.”*
Garraway said it doesn’t make sense that an organization with such a
violent track record is allowed to work with vulnerable populations such as
kids, noting that officers who “maimed and murdered” people are still on
the force today. “*MPD made international news for its human rights
violations against Black residents,” *she said,* “and now we’re turning our
kids over to them…” *
North Minneapolis filmmaker and abolitionist D.A. Bullock tweeted his
outrage <https://twitter.com/BullyCreative/status/1569711484988530689> about
the program, claiming that nothing has changed with the department since
Floyd’s murder.
*“$740k to pilot a law enforcement internship for high school students as a
recruiting tool for MPD – this should inrage [sic] you. Your $ paying to
recruit students into an organization that has not evolved or improved in
one measurable way since May 25, 2020.” **D.A. Bullock*
In June 2020 the Saint Paul School Board
<https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/23/st-paul-school-board-votes-against-renewing-contract-with-police-department>
followed
the lead of Minneapolis and passed a similar resolution ending its contract
with the Saint Paul Police Department (SPPD), removing seven SROs from
Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS).
However, the murder of Saint Paul Harding High School student Devin Scott
who was recently stabbed to death at school has SPPS officials reevaluating
their partnership with police. According to MPR News
<https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/02/14/st-paul-superintendent-school-safety-harding-fatal-stabbing>,
after Scott’s killing, Superintendent Joe Gothard said that he wants *“to
see if we can redefine what a formal partnership looks like…”*
Saint Paul School Board Commissioner Chauntyll Allen fired back on
Facebook, *“An SRO with a new name is still a killer cop,” *citing the
recent killing of Yia Xiong in his home by Saint Paul police only weeks
ago. Read Unicorn Riot’s coverage of Xiong’s killing here
<https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/no-english-dont-shoot-saint-paul-police-kill-elder-hmong-war-hero/>
.
On Feb. 8, Minneapolis North High School Principal Mauri Friestleben sent
out a letter to families revealing that a student*“brandished a gun at
another student”* that day and that the building went into lockdown. A
staff member intervened and police were called but the student with the gun
fled before cops arrived.
Garraway believes it is a convenient time for cops to reclaim their
presence and regain power in public schools. She warns, *“When violence
takes place in our schools, it is a prime opportunity for police to get
back in our buildings and re-establish their legitimacy… at a moment when
it’s at an all time low.” *
Conservatives didn’t waste time attacking teachers. The local *“lightning
rod”* police union responded to MFT, not withholding its animosity for
educators. As reported by the right-wing media outlet Alpha News
<https://alphanews.org/teachers-union-slammed-for-objecting-to-plan-to-recruit-police-from-community>,
The Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis said:
“*It is shameful that the very people tasked with ‘educating’ our youth are
actively trying to stymie efforts to provide employment and educational
opportunities to their students. Instead of rallying against efforts to
diversify the police department and provide opportunities for their
students, perhaps [MFT59] should focus on how to improve their dismal test
scores and plummeting enrollment.*“
The Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis
The conservative think tank Center of the American Experiment
<https://www.americanexperiment.org/the-minneapolis-federation-of-teachers-reveals-its-true-colors>
wrote
a hit piece about MFT59 accusing the teachers of pushing their own agenda
not rooted in the interests of their students.
*“MFT59’s effort to oppose this police recruitment…is unwise, out of touch
with its base, and ultimately self-serving. It reveals a blatant hypocrisy
that exists within the teacher’s union leadership that puts its priorities
above that of its students and the community.”*
Center of the American Experiment
Twitter account Crime Watch Mpls, which is run by right-wing activist Shelley
Leeson
<http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls-ne/messages/topic/QbgdqvQ9lltAwxLyJoPFd>,
bashed MFT59 on Twitter
<https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1604636405883355136> and called
Minneapolis Public Schools *“hate camps.”* *“Always room for one more
hypocrite,”* she tweeted two days after the teacher’s statement went public.
*“[MFT59] bitches because cops aren’t from the community while at the same
time opposing efforts to recruit people from the community to become police
officers. Get your kids out of these hate camps.”*
Shelley Leeson, Crime Watch Mpls
Backlash against local teachers comes at a time when educators across the
country are under attack for teaching content that highlights systemic
racism throughout American history, which has been labeled *“woke”* or
*“critical
race theory”* (CRT) by conservative ideologues
<https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conservative-activist-invented-the-conflict-over-critical-race-theory>.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely Republican presidential prospect for
2024, has recently banned AP Black Studies courses in high schools across
the state. Other states including Arkansas, North Dakota, Mississippi and
Virginia
<https://www.axios.com/2023/02/18/four-states-review-ap-african-american-studies-class>
are
looking into following Florida’s lead.
Garraway believes the attack against Black history and so-called *‘CRT’* is
directly connected to the recruitment of Black students to *“join their
ranks”* as cops. She said young people learning about structural racism and
the ways of the world is one of the greatest threats to power.
*“Without youth buying in, [law enforcement’s] entire existence is in
question. And that’s why Black history is seen as a threat to this country
in the way that abolition is.”*
Jessica Garraway
After the murder of Tyre Nichols by mostly Black police officers in
Memphis, the abolitionist educator sees even more people considering a
world without police.
*“I think more than any other event in a while, [Tyre’s murder] has
highlighted that Black people can also perpetuate white supremacy and that
policing itself is the issue.”*
Jessica Garraway
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Marjaan Sirdar is a South Minneapolis based freelance journalist. He is the
host of the People Power Podcast and author of the investigative series, 21st
Century Jim Crow in the North Star City: How Target Corp., the City of
Minneapolis, and Hennepin County, Created a Domestic Spy Program That
Rolled Back Civil Rights On its Black Population
<https://unicornriot.ninja/21st-century-jim-crow-a-series/>, published by
Unicorn Riot. You can follow him on Twitter @peoplepowerpod1
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