As Officer Mike Daniliuk heads towards the basketball court at the Frisoli Youth Center, he greets several black teens with a friendly handclasp-turned-shoulder bump.

Only 12 states mandate that school resource officers receive student-specific preparation.

Lisa Thurau is interviewed on MSNBC about training standards for School Resource Officers after students at Spring Valley High hold a rally in support of the fired S.C. Deputy.

Lisa Thurau appears on Al Jazeera America to discuss discipline in schools following the Spring Valley High School arrest incident in South Carolina.

Lisa Thurau on ‘CTV News Channel’ on the Conduct of the School Resource Officer in Spring Valley High School, South Carolina.

By now you’ve probably seen the video. A school resource officer violently flips, slams and drags a student out of her chair as her classmates watch, some filming the incident on their phones. Immediately after the video went viral, social media erupted in a flood of questions about the presence of police in schools, and how classroom discipline should be handled.

Lisa Thurau is interviewed on CNN about police acting as SROs (School Resource Officers) after the video of a violent classroom arrest in South Carolina goes viral.

The line between security in the schools and discipline has been blurred by the presence of thousands of officers, experts say.

Law enforcement officers and juvenile probation officers from Howard County will be gathering together to improve interactions with youth through the Policing the Teen Brain training in Kokomo.