The School-To-Mass-Murder Pipeline

Ann Coulter  "Nikolas Cruz’s psychosis ended in a bloody massacre not only because of the stunning incompetence of the Broward County Sheriff’s Department. It was also the result of liberal insanity working exactly as it was intended to.

"School and law enforcement officials knew Cruz was a ticking time bomb. They did nothing because of a deliberate, willful, bragged-about policy to end the “school-to-prison pipeline.” This is the feature part of the story, not the bug part.

"If Cruz had taken out full-page ads in the local newspapers, he could not have demonstrated more clearly that he was a dangerous psychotic. He assaulted students, cursed out teachers, kicked in classroom doors, started fist fights, threw chairs, threatened to kill other students, mutilated small animals, pulled a rifle on his mother, drank gasoline and cut himself, among other “red flags.' ” . . .

. . . "When he took over in 2011, the district had “the highest number of school-related arrests in the state.” But today, he boasted, Broward has “one of the lowest rates of arrest in the state.” By the simple expedient of ignoring criminal behavior, student arrests had declined by a whopping 78 percent.

FOOTBALL COACH: “When I took over this team a year ago, we were last in the league in pass defense. Today, we no longer keep that statistic!”

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"When it comes to spectacular crimes, it’s usually hard to say how it could have been prevented. But in this case, we have a paper trail. In the pursuit of a demented ideology, specific people agreed not to report, arrest or prosecute dangerous students like Nikolas Cruz.

"These were the parties to the Nov. 5, 2013, agreement that ensured Cruz would be out on the street with full access to firearms:

• Robert W. Runcie, Superintendent of Schools
• Peter M. Weinstein, Chief Judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit
• Michael J. Satz, State Attorney
• Howard Finkelstein, Public Defender
• Scott Israel, Broward County Sheriff
• Franklin Adderley, Chief of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department
• Wansley Walters, Secretary of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
• Marsha Ellison, President of the Fort Lauderdale Branch of the NAACP and Chair of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board

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