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arrest rates of children increased substantially after schools received federal grants to hire police officers, starting in 1999. Each additional officer led to about 2.5 extra in-school arrests annually of children between ages 7 and 14. There was also some evidence that additional police meant older students were more likely to be arrested both in and out of school.
This study doesn’t break down the findings by race, but numerous other analyses have shown that Black students are much more likely to be arrested in school.
A separate study found that the addition of school police officers in Texas led to a 6% increase in disciplinary actions — including suspensions — for middle school students. These suspensions were largely in response to relatively low-level offenses, and Black students were most affected. There were no clear effects on discipline rates for high school students.
These results likely reflect how school police often end up involved in regular school discipline matters, even if that isn’t formally a part of their roles.
In one recent study, researchers interviewed dozens of school personnel, including police. One officer described an incident where a student refused to leave a teacher’s classroom for an in-school suspension, and the officer was called to tell the student to leave.
“The next step after that is, if you’re refusing to do what I tell you to do,” the officer would later tell researchers, “I’m probably going to take him into custody for ‘unruly juvenile,’ and we’ll settle it that way.”
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