ARRESTED LEARNING

For years, Black and Brown youth, parents, educators, and communities have organized to dismantle the school-to-prison-to-deportation pipeline system, and to remove police and security from their schools.

To uncover critical information about students’ experiences, interactions, and feelings about police and security at school, four community-based organizations across the country fielded in-depth surveys of their youth membership: Latinos Unidos Siempre (LUS), Make the Road Nevada (MRNV), Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ), and the Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC).

The results of this national survey, which reached 630 young people in Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon, clearly reinforce what young people have already made known: police and security at school do not make them safe. The survey also explored young people’s vision for supportive and well-resourced schools. Read the NYC section of the report here.