Obama ‘No-Arrest Policy’ May Have Shielded Fla. Shooter  February 27, 2018

‘The intent of PROMISE is to safeguard the student from entering the judicial system…’

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An Obama-era “no-arrest policy” guideline for school discipline may have hindered the ability of authorities to prevent Nikolas Cruz’s mass murder of 17 persons at a Florida high school on February 14, said the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Richard Corcoran. Corcoran, a Republican from Florida’s Pasco County, made his comments on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s News Tonight.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel coordinated with the Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie to implement a school disciplinary guidelines — entitled the "PROMISE" program: Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education —  ORIENTED AROUND RACIAL AND ETHNIC QUOTAS.

Breitbart News reported: “The Obama-era Departments of Education and Justice – under education secretary  Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder –issued school guidelines in 2014 that claimed students of color are ‘disproportionately impacted’ by suspensions and expulsions, a situation they said leads to a ‘school-to-prison pipeline’ that discriminates against minority and low-income students.”…

The PROMISE program’s website describes the policy’s purpose: “THE INTENT OF PROMISE IS TO SAFEGUARD THE STUDENT FROM ENTERING THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM.” It also contains a  “Diversity” subcategory.

On Sunday, Sheriff Israel  PRAISED the PROMISE program:    [The PROMISE program is] giving the school — the school has the ability under certain circumstances not to call the police, not to get the police involved on misdemeanor offenses and take care of it within the school. It’s an excellent program. It’s helping many, many people. What this program does is not put a person at 14, 15, 16 years old into the criminal justice system.