NEW YORK — For Alexandra Valera, a high school junior, walking into school each day feels like walking into a prison.
Like many others around the country, her New York City high school has police officers and metal detectors -- and students are forced to empty their pockets each day and risk getting patted down each morning.
In the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, some politicians, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, have proposed increased law enforcement or security in schools as a potential solution. But some students, particularly those of color, like Valera and Palafox, fear discrimination and possible brutality may result without much positive impact on the overall safety of students and staff.
“We've taught, for three generations now, that relationships are at the core of this,” Canady said. “The idea is that for the SRO, they view students as students, and so it's very important that you start with the goal of relationship building.” The Justice Department failed to find conclusive data on whether police are effective in overall school safety efforts: “these studies provide no evidence base that suggests that police presence in schools makes a difference in improving safety outcomes.”National Institute of Justice Journal
“By having law enforcement in schools, they're more likely to get brought into disciplinary situations that, in their absence, probably could have been handled by school administrators or teachers,” said Curran.Psychologist Angela Mann, who studies social justice and equity, says that having tighter security overall -- whether it's armed police or metal detectors -- can also damage the school’s culture and a student’s trust in the safety of the institution.
Some students of color interviewed by ABC News expressed fear that one wrong move could land them on the school-to-prison pipeline, which uses the criminal justice system to punish students instead of in-school methods.
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