Pittsburgh Public Schools board members introduce resolution following call for removal of police

PITTSBURGH — After demands to remove police from Pittsburgh Public Schools, two board members introduced a resolution that includes creating a community task force within schools.

Some called for police to be removed altogether, while others expressed their gratitude and the need for officers inside.

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The board members’ resolution meets somewhere in the middle of that. It doesn’t call for the removal of police, but rather a community task force and more data on what happens inside those schools.

“What is actually happening? Who is being arrested, who is getting referred to police and why?” board member Devon Taliaferro said. “What charges are brought and why? This gives us the opportunity to do that.”

Board members didn’t vote on the resolution Wednesday night because they wanted more time to thoroughly review it.

Taliaferro said they made changes up to the last minute because they wanted to incorporate what they heard during the more than 100 testimonials from parents and students into the resolution.

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