Tag: School police
Police presence on school grounds poses potential risks to kids
Elizabeth K. Anthony, Arizona State University
In fall 2020, I got an email from the Phoenix Elementary School District...
The good-guy image police present to students often clashes with students’...
F. Chris Curran, University of Florida; Aaron Kupchik, University of Delaware, and Benjamin W. Fisher, University of Louisville
Eight days after George Floyd was killed...
Video of 6-year-old girl’s arrest shows the perils of putting police...
F. Chris Curran, University of Florida
When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids...
School resource officers aren’t arrested often – but when they are,...
F. Chris Curran, University of Florida
The presence of law enforcement in schools – better known as school resource officers – has become increasingly common....
Arrests of 6-year-olds shows the perils of putting police in primary...
F. Chris Curran, University of Florida
When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids...
School shootings prompted protests, debates about best ways to keep students...
Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look back at the stories that...
A school resource officer in every school?
F. Chris Curran, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Less than three weeks after a school resource officer stopped an armed teen who shot two students...
School resource officers can prevent tragedies, but training is key
Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State University
Despite legitimate concerns about the effects of placing school resource officers in the nation’s schools, the reality is having these...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
