Nearly a year ago, two former Denver Public Schools administrators pitched an idea for how police and students could form healthy relationships instead of punitive ones.
The proposal hasn’t been put into place. Nor have any others that address how Denver schools and city police should work together after a 2020 decision to remove police officers from schools — despite rising youth gun violence across the city.
On Monday, that violence made its way nearly to the doorstep of East High School when a student was shot and critically injured just outside the school. On Wednesday, a gun was confiscated at the school, one of at least eight found on Denver campuses this school year.
