Some Resources We're Looking at This Week

Learn more about policing and police in schools to better inform your work.

Podcast: The Appeal

Justice in America Episode 28: The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Video: How did school safety get so dangerous?

From the ACLU

Report: From Report Card to Criminal Record

From Black Organizing Project

More Resources

Over the past few months in the development of the Peace Without Police campaign, our team has used several sources in informing our actions. You can take a look at some of those sources below.

If you’re looking for more ways to get informed about policing and action, check out Poetic Justice, a bookclub where we read texts around policing, abolition, and more. If you prefer at-your-own-pace video learning, check out PowerUp!, our free, online training program.

Articles

Vox, Why having police in schools is a problem, in 3 charts

ACLU, Police in Schools Continue to Target Black, Brown, and Indigenous Students with Disabilities

ACLU, It Is Time to Get Real About School Policing

Learning for Justice, The School-to-Prison Pipeline

The Appeal, To End the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Invest in Resources for Students

Insider, Kaia Rolle was arrested at school when she was 6. Nearly two years later, she still ‘has to bring herself out of despair.’

Medium, Mental Health, Race, Poverty, & the School to Prison Pipeline

National Disability Rights Network, School Resource Officers Do Not Belong in Our Nation’s Schools

The Nation, What the Cops Off Campus Movement Looks Like Across the Country

The Center for Law and Social Policy, Defund Police in Schools and Expand School-Based Mental Health

Spectrum News, Students Lead Movement to “Defund the Police” in LAUSD

Factsheets

Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, What the Research Shows: The Impact of School Resource Officers

Institute for Policy Studies, Get Cops Out of Schools: A Factsheet

Learning for Justice, The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, What the Research Shows: Sexual Misconduct and Gender Discrimination by School Resource Officers

Reports

ACLU, Cops and No Counselors: How the Lack of School Mental Health Staff Is Harming Students

Alliance for Educational Justice and Advancement Project, We Came To Learn

ACLU California, The Right to Remain a Student: How California School Policies Fail to Protect and Serve

Black Organizing Project, From Report Card to Criminal Record

GLSEN, Educational Exclusion: Drop Out, Push Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline among LGBTQ Youth

Institute for Policy Studies, Students Under Siege: How the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Poverty, and Racism Endanger our School Children

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Videos

ACLU, Niya Arrested For Challenging Police Abuse in Schools

ACLU, How Did School Safety Get so Dangerous?

ACLU, Gone too Far: School-to-Prison Pipeline

Podcasts, Books, and Infographcs

Podcasts

The Appeal, Justice in America Episode 28: The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Books

Monique W. Morris, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Infographics

ACLU, School-to-Prison Pipeline Infographic