Policy brief analyzing Police In schools include these three articles, "Safety with Dignity (July 2015)", "Maintain the momentum a plan for safety and fairness in schools (July 2016)", "School-hoouse...

Issues:
Over the past few years, schools have recorded a surge in criminalization of young people. Black and Latino communities are most affected or more targeted due to racism intolerance of some police officers. Police officer assigned to patrol in schools are legally allowed to use physical force on students, arrest the students and even bring the full weight of the criminal justice system to bear on the students at such young age. Sometimes young students have to go through criminal justice system just because they are simply misbehaving. Primary role of police in schools is to enforce criminal laws, and legally they can consider every violation of a school rule as criminal act. Over the year presence of police in schools resulted into the start of the school-to-prison pipeline. Many school kids are bearing criminal justice system, sometimes just for simply misbehaving with police officers. Here we are listing some of the issues related with presence of police in schools:
1. Punitive responses of police officers with students: There are large numbers of cases coming up every year. Many police officers make use of punitive responses approach they hurt school kids physically over any arguments. We can discuss some cases as examples, in year 2015 a Florida police school resource officer twisted the arm for over 40seconds of a 13 year old student. Student ended up with a sprained wrist and ankle. There was a case in elementary school of Mufreesboro, Tennessee where police arrested 10 students, ages 6 to 11. Students were arrested because they didn’t stop an off campus fight days earlier. Every year a number of such cases pop up which points the finger on deployment of police officers in schools.
2. Students are subjected to arrests, summonses and suspension at very young age. USA and state wide data for school year 2017 shows that 49,959,586 students got enrolled themselves. And 69,782 students out of them faced arrests due to violation of code of conduct, whereas 222,541 got referrals. So, a large number of students are getting arrested and facing suspension, arrests, summonses and imprisonment at such young age. The same data also tells that out of total arrest, black students account for 33.4 percent of total arrests, where they are only 15.5 percent of total student population. So, because of discrimination and racism black students are more likely to face such adverse effects of deploying sworn police officers in schools.
3. Discriminate or disparity by race, gender and LGBTQ status in student disciplines, arrests and summonses. Suspension disparity data tells us that black young students are four times more likely to get suspension while compare to white young students. While Hispanic kids are two times more likely to get suspension. Whereas the numbers of Black and Hispanic students are way lower than white students but still they are high in number of suspensions and arrests. Suspension disparity index of last few years tell the same story, black and Hispanic kids are more inclined to get suspension over minor violation of code of conduct. Same disparity goes on when it comes to referring students to law enforcement. Black students are three two more likely to be referred to law enforcement as their white classmates, and is some states black girl students are 8 times more likely to get arrested as white girls. Reason behind all this racist behaviour of some SROs (school resources officers) or police officers deployed in schools. Also, sexual orientations of students play a role in deciding whether they are likely to get arrested or not. LGBT community people are more likely to face dire consequences even at minor violation of code of conduct.
4. Frequency and duration of suspensions, arrests and referral to the justice system for school-based disciplinary offenses are high. There is high probability that a student getting a high duration of imprisonment will be more inclined to dropout from school. Due to some kind of disparity, some specific students are getting high duration suspension, arrests, imprisonment and facing juvenile justice system. Getting high duration suspension and imprisonment adversely affects a student’s life. So, a long term suspension and imprisonment should be avoided in order to provide students a good life.
5. Students dropping out of schools: Arrest or...