Black students and other students of color also are disproportionately likely to have negative interactions with police in schools, ranging from referrals to law enforcement to being arrested or restrained, said Katherine Dunn, director of the Opportunity to Learn program at the Advancement Project. Since 2007, the Advancement Project has documented at least 200“It shows all the physical harms that young people experience by police," she said.
“I'd like to see that conversation include thoughtful considerations of potential benefits, decreasing certain kinds of behaviors, but also the potential unintended consequences, if that's increasing the likelihood students are arrested or potentially increasing racial disparities in discipline and arrest rates,” Curran said.
The nonprofit group has rejected criticism that officers contribute to a school-to-prison pipeline. Officers who follow its best practices, it says, do not arrest students for disciplinary issues that would be handled ordinarily by educators.outside schools across North Carolina to provide reassurance to families in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas shooting.
Easy solution. Segregate the schools then provide police protection to white students who appreciate it. Side benefit: Test scores will increase in the white schools as they were before desegregation
This is a sad state of affairs when teenagers are more afraid of the police than the threat they face.