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How To Make The Public Safer? It's A Lot Harder Than Just Hiring More Police

The NPR Politics Podcast

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School Policing Is Not Effective in Protecting Students

When we bring more guns into schools, it's going to mean more people get shot. The burden of this policing falls on exactly the kinds of more vulnerable populations you mention in its producing these tremendous disparities. We now have decades of research that has failed to find any real public safety benefit to school policing. Instead, what we find is that policing criminalizes youthful behavior that is deemed disorderly and disruptive.

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