A researched thread on why police should NOT be in our schools, anywhere in America.

Police in schools harm Black & Brown kids & students with disabilities.

So don’t come with your antecdotal story about how Officer ___ is so nice at your school...

Research not anecdotes.
“Research shows that the mere presence of police officers in school increases the likelihood that a student will be referred to law enforcement for adolescent behavior. School-based arrests, which fall more harshly on students of color...”
https://www.povertylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/handcuffs-in-hallways-final.pdf">https://www.povertylaw.org/wp-conten...
“Disabled students...are three times more likely to be arrested than their peers. School policing is still very disproportionately harming students of color, students with learning disabilities, and the students who identify as LGBTQ”

https://psmag.com/.amp/education/after-parkland-schools-upped-police-presence-has-it-made-students-safer">https://psmag.com/.amp/educ...
“According to the U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection for 2015-& #39;16, the most recent data available, over 290,600 cases in schools were referred to law enforcement or resulted in arrest.” https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/30000-children-age-10-arrested-us-2013-fbi/story?id=65798787">https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/30...
“school-to-prison pipeline” (STPP) to describe how harsh school disciplinary policies and law enforcement policies intersect to feed young people into the criminal punishment system. This system criminalizes rather than educates students..” https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-works">https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how...
“The report also found that officers assigned to Chicago Public Schools last year accumulated more than $2 million in misconduct settlements for actions that occurred on and off school grounds between 2012 and 2016.” https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-police-schools-met-20170207-story.html">https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/brea...
A few amazing organizations who have been doing this work in some cases for years are:
GKMC
Black Lives Matter Chicago
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
Assata& #39;s Daughters
Voyces
Alliance for Educational Justice
No Cop Academy
Students Strike Back
“..mere presence of police in school increases the likelihood that a student will be referred to law enforcement for adolescent behavior. School-based arrests, fall more harshly on students of color, put students in direct contact with the justice system.”
https://www.povertylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/handcuffs-in-hallways-final.pdf">https://www.povertylaw.org/wp-conten...
Diagnosed as autistic, Kayleb kicked a trash can at Linkhorne Middle School in Virginia. A police officer assigned to the school witnessed the tantrum, and filed a disorderly conduct charge against the sixth grader in juvenile court. https://publicintegrity.org/education/virginia-tops-nation-in-sending-students-to-cops-courts-where-does-your-state-rank/">https://publicintegrity.org/education...
Even during a Chicago police training to help police be in schools (remember police shouldn’t be in schools) a cop said with reporters there, “If a student crosses the line, “I’m going to police their ass.” https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/7/15/20695055/school-cops-chicago-cps-public-police-taser-marshall">https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/7/15...
“For immigrant and undocumented students, bringing police into the school building can lead to deportation for themselves or their families.”
https://dignityinschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/WhyCounselorsNotCops.pdf">https://dignityinschools.org/wp-conten...
“Data from the U.S. De-
partment of Education confirms that students of color and students with disabilities are saddled with a disproportionate number of the school-based arrests...that result from an increased police presence in schools.”
https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=mjrl">https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewc...
“When John Haygood, a 10-year-old boy with autism, was arrested last week at a school in Florida, he kept repeating that he didn& #39;t know what was happening, as seen in shaky cellphone video taken by his mother.” https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/21/health/autism-florida-10-year-old-arrested-bn/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/2...
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