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.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The city police have been busy in recent months, with new equipment, training and projects as well as exceptional work from officers.
The police department in Lincoln, a Massachusetts town of roughly 7,000 people, outlines in a 29-page policy for how police officers should interact with children, ranging from sex trafficking victims to teens arrested for fighting.
A video depicting a young man, with his hands up in the air, being tased by a police officer and collapsing backward on the ground is extremely disturbing on many levels.
How is the current COVID-19 pandemic is impacting youth and their families? Experts provide recommendations for positive law enforcement response.
The webinar took place on April 21, 2020. Click the button below to watch the video and see the supporting materials.
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