
What Do Police Know About Teenagers? Not Enough.
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.
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.
After more than two decades working as a juvenile justice advocate, Lisa Thurau ’82 understands just how fraught interactions between cops and children can be. She’s seen firsthand how situations can escalate.
Around noon on Dec. 11, 2019, Christeena Lothrop received a text message from another parent at Auburn Middle School, asking if her son was OK. The text showed a picture of Lothrop’s then-13-year-old son, belly down on the floor of the school’s crowded cafeteria, with a police officer kneeling on either side of his back.
Congressional Democrats will introduce a bill to make it illegal for any school receiving federal funding to use seclusion or dangerous restraints on students.
Congressional Democrats will introduce a bill to make it illegal for any school receiving federal funding to use seclusion or dangerous restraints on students.
The recent deaths of two teenagers at the hands of police — Adam Toledo, 13, in Chicago and Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, in Columbus, Ohio — illustrate a glaring omission in policing practices and oversight.
How is the current COVID-19 pandemic is impacting youth and their families? Experts provide recommendations for positive law enforcement response.
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