MAPLEWOOD, NJ – A program called Strategies for Youth, designed to improve police communication with young people, might work well in Maplewood, said members the Maplewood Community Board on Police on Wednesday.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — On a warm September Sunday in 2016, a small Black teenager in a pink T-shirt biked through narrow city streets and rolled into an intersection. So did a Chevy Cruze, driven by an 85-year-old man heading home from church.

CHICAGO (AP) — Royal Smart remembers every detail: the feeling of the handcuffs on his wrists. The panic as he was led outside into the cold March darkness, arms raised, to face a wall of police officers pointing their guns.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Belmont County Juvenile and Probate Judge Al Davies visited the Martins Ferry City School District Board of Education on Tuesday to give an update on current and future programs and services.

Following a 10 On Your Side investigation into the Norfolk Police Department’s use of force on minors this week, our investigative team took our data analysis to two experts.

For Madeline Borrelli, a special education teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y., having NYPD-trained law enforcement officers in schools is a cut-and-dry issue: “School safety agents,” she said, using their official job title, “ … should not exist at all.”

With the recent increase in visibility of police shootings of unarmed people of color, many minorities report having less confidence in the ability of law enforcement to do their jobs and it turns out that even many children are having less favorable views of police officers.

The day Brian Lowe attended a training session for police officers on understanding the minds of teenagers, he knew his job would never be the same.

DENMARK, TN (WNBJ) – The West Tennessee Regional Training Center is hosting the Policing on the Brain training class this week in Denmark.

The Policing the Teen Brain class is a train-the-trainer program designed to teach school resource officers how to improve and help deescalate situations with adolescents.