Violence in liberal public schools has nearly doubled as parents demand more policing. Some parents in Los Angeles are fighting back against the city’s more progressive activist groups, and violence in the school district has nearly doubled since police were removed from school campuses in the wake of the 2020 riots in the killing of the Maria Luisa Palma, a member of the Los Angeles Parent Advisory Committee, organized an independent petition in February calling for police back to school campuses as regional data revealed high levels of violence.