Deasy didn't start L.A.'s school militarization, but he didn't end it either.
Fred Klonsky |
Adm. David Brewer III |
In 2001, the district was led by former Governor of Colorado and Democratic Party chairman Roy Romer.
It was Romer, himself a former U.S. Air Force legal officer, who made the original deal with the Pentagon to accept used military battlefield equipment under the 1033 Program, created by Congress in the early 1990s. The program was originally intended to bolster the crowd control capacities of local police departments in the face of impending civil unrest. But soon public school districts' security departments joined in arms race.
Romer left L.A. in 2006, replaced by David L. Brewer III, a former Navy Vice-Admiral who served as head of the Navy's Education and Training Division and Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Deasy didn't start L.A.'s school militarization, but he didn't end it either.: