Newly Elected Boston Mayor Still Backs Police Out of Schools

Boston's newly elected mayor says she still supports removing police officers out of schools despite recent school violence.

On Wednesday, a principal was violently assaulted at a school in the city's Dorchester neighborhood, WCVB-TV reports. Another high school has had two consecutive days of fighting.

But these incidents haven't swayed Mayor-elect Michelle Wu's opinion about the elimination of a police presence at schools. 

"It points for the need for us really to be really investing in our young people, in our school system, in the supports that are necessary all throughout the system," Wu told WCVB. "We need in particularly in this moment coming out of the pandemic, when there's been such stress, anxiety, trauma on our families to be putting more resources into social and emotional supports, into the wraparound services that our schools should be providing."

Earlier this year, Boston School Police lost its arrest powers. They also became called safety services officers.