Local School Council decisions collectively produced racialized differences in SRO presence, with Black students more than twice as likely as other students to have an SRO in their school¶
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q2 i? In 2022-23, 63% of Black high school students had at least one SRO, compared with 29% each for Latinx and White students. → Arneson 2024
Evidence¶
Arneson 2024¶
Arneson, A., Hinze-Pifer, R., Franklin, K., & Johnson, D.W. (2024). Removing police officers from Chicago schools: Trends and outcomes. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/removing-police-officers-from-Chicago-schools
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Descriptive analysis of CPS administrative data on student race/ethnicity and school SRO status (Figure 4). Although SRO presence declined for all groups, "large racialized differences emerged during implementation of the policy".
"In 2022–23, 63% of Black high school students had at least one SRO in their school, compared with 29% each for Latinx and White students, 22% for Asian/Pacific Islander students and 27% of students in additional race/ethnicity groups."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Race and Ethnicity — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause
Related Claims¶
- High schools that retained SROs had higher suspension rates, were smaller, and served more socioeconomically disadvantaged students — related
- Police notifications declined substantially in schools that fully removed SROs, but the difference-in-difference was not statistically significant — related
- Black students and students with disabilities are suspended at disproportionately high rates, and high-poverty schools are more likely to have a School Resource Officer — related
- Campus policing and surveillance disproportionately burden students of color, who mostly report police do not make them feel safer — related
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Local School Council decisions collectively produced racialized differences in SRO presence, with Black students more than twice as likely as other students to have an SRO in their school |
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Local School Council decisions collectively produced racialized differences in SRO presence, with Black students more than twice as likely as other students to have an SRO in their school |
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