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Many communities are re-evaluating the relationship between policing, community safety, and racial justice. As part of this movement, many school districts are rethinking costly police contracts and debating whether they really need to maintain school-based police (often called school resource officers).
If we are to successfully interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, we must resist efforts to criminalize children of color, and we must begin to move away from biased systems that offer a false promise of school safety through policing to real, comprehensive, community-rooted solutions that offer genuine safety for all children.
Included: A Few Simple Next Steps for Adult Allies
