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Five new signs of a crisis in police accountability
Reading Time: 3 minutes Five major headlines in the news recently offer significant insight into America’s crisis in police accountability: 1. Black kids arrested for a crime that doesn’t exist...
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Underreporting undermines accountability about police and schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes Public Integrity’s recent report, “When schools call police on kids,” showed that nearly 230,000 students were referred to law enforcement across the country during the 2017-18...
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Addressing school safety fears could have unintended consequences
Reading Time: 3 minutes Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s promise to add more police officers in schools could have unintended consequences for the state’s children. New research from the Annenberg...
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Students wanted police out of schools. The replacements have guns.
Reading Time: 3 minutes In June 2020, amid protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, school districts across the nation began to reexamine their relationships with law...
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A school district defunded police. But it keeps calling them back in.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Milwaukee Public Schools canceled its contract with the city police department in June 2020, but the policy change has not stopped staff from summoning officers to schools....
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‘She looks like a baby’: Why do kids as young as 5 or 6 still get arrested at...
Reading Time: 21 minutes ORLANDO — The preschoolers filed offstage in royal blue caps and gowns, hugging their parents and ready for treats to celebrate their 2018 graduation from Trinity Learning...
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Virginia wanted to report fewer kids to police. Now it’s reversed course.
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2020, Virginia passed a law that allowed principals to decide when to alert police if students committed a possible misdemeanor. Organizations that work on juvenile justice...
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Shootings shape the debate on school policing
Reading Time: 3 minutes When he heard the news of a shooting at his old high school, Endi Montalvo-Martinez fell into a panic. Montalvo-Martinez has a cousin who attends Des Moines’ East High and an...
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Disentangling the debate over school police
Reading Time: 4 minutes DeMarcus Jenkins has seen the presence of law enforcement in schools from different angles — as a student, high school teacher and education researcher. As districts around the...
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Fighting back against racial bias in school policing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two U.S. agencies are urging school districts “to confront the issue of race discrimination in student discipline,” releasing a report highlighting federal investigations that...
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