Broward County, Florida school board officials have authorized police to conduct real-time monitoring of students in school via video surveillance cameras. The action is one of a number of new police measures being instituted nationally in what President Donald Trump called the “hardening” of schools in the aftermath of the mass shooting last year in Parkland.
While hundreds of millions of dollars are being allocated nationally to arm more police in schools, the real causes of mass shootings—never-ending predatory wars, the glorification of the military, historic levels of social inequality, the general brutalization of social relations, and the destruction of social programs and health care—are being covered up. Instead, horrific actions, like those of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, are being used as a pretext to build up the repressive apparatus of the state.
— source wsws.org | 4 Feb 2019