There Will be Police Presence in all Atlantic City, NJ Schools

Effective Tuesday, September 10, 2024, all Atlantic City Public Schools will have at least one Atlantic City Police Officer assigned during the180 school day school year.

Atlantic City High will have two police officers assigned.

This measure calls for the same police officers to be assigned to each school on a consistent basis.

Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson called for Police Officers to be assigned to all Atlantic City, New Jersey public schools years ago.

Levinson mentioned what he was doing at the Atlantic County Institute of Technology with stationed police presence and he strongly suggested that the Atlantic City Public Schools should do the same thing.

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small publicly criticized Levinson for this idea.

Now, Small is taking credit for the idea. Also, this is not a new idea. Atlantic City High school had police officers regularly stationed more than 50 years ago.

In his usual confrontational manner, Small wrote the following comment on his personal page … Small wrote yesterday:

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Now My Wife and I are out here really making HISTORY. As tomorrow will continue to be a GREAT Day but yet another HISTORIC Day in The City of Atlantic City. For the first time and history of our GREAT City and our School System. It will be a police officer, the same officers in every school all 180 days of The School year...we rather have options and not need them, than need options and not have them. We can't take the approach of school shootings can not happen in Atlantic City, so we will be prepared by having our officers on the front line and, more importantly, creating positive relationships with the students and staff, wrote Small.

This is not the first time that Small has taken to his personal Facebook page to make declarative public statements.

Small blocks certain people from seeing his personal page, making it a bad idea to break city business in this manner.

The danger and violence in Atlantic City has certainly warranted this public safety move for years.

NOTE:

ATLANTIC CITY HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, CONSTANCE DAYS-CHAPMAN is criminally charged with:

second-degree Official Misconduct.
third-degree Hindering Apprehension of
Another.
fourth-degree Obstruction of Justice.
disorderly persons Failure to Report Child Abuse.

Days-Chapman was promptly suspended following being criminally charged.

MARTY SMALL is criminally charged with:

2nd degree endangering the welfare of a child.
3rd degree aggravated assault
3rd degree terroristic threats
disorderly persons simple assault

LA'QUETTA SMALL is criminally charged with:

2nd degree endangering the welfare of a child.
3 separate counts of disorderly persons simple assault.

It remains beyond comprehension that La’Quetta Small is not suspended from her position as superintendent of public schools, while facing serious child abuse criminal charges.

SOURCES: Marty Small Facebook post & Harry Hurley in the Morning reporting.