Metal detector use disproportionately affects students of color, who are more likely to pass through detectors daily¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In NYC, 48 percent of Black and 38 percent of Hispanic high school students, versus 14 percent of White students, pass through metal detectors each day. → Schildkraut 2019 q2 i? Compared to White students, Black and Latino/a students were 4.8 and 2.7 times, respectively, more likely to pass through a metal detector. → Schildkraut 2019 (2)

Evidence¶

Schildkraut 2019¶

Schildkraut, J., & Grogan, K. (2019). Are metal detectors effective at making schools safer? San Francisco, CA: WestEd. https://www.wested.org/resources/are-metal-detectors-effective-at-making-schools-safer

q2 · i? · review · r2

The brief reports NYC data on racial disparities: "48 percent of Black high school students and 38 percent of Hispanic high school students" pass through detectors daily versus 14 percent of White students.

"48 percent of Black high school students and 38 percent of Hispanic high school students, compared to just 14 percent of White students, pass through metal detectors each day"

Schildkraut 2019 (2)¶

Schildkraut, J., & Grogan, K. (2019). Are metal detectors effective at making schools safer? San Francisco, CA: WestEd. https://www.wested.org/resources/are-metal-detectors-effective-at-making-schools-safer

q2 · i? · review · r2

The brief reports a study using the School Crime Supplement of the National Crime Victimization Survey (cited to Toldson 2011) found Black and Latino/a students were "4.8 and 2.7 times, respectively, more likely" to pass through detectors.

"Compared to White students, Black and Latino/a students were 4.8 and 2.7 times, respectively, more likely to pass through a metal detector at their schools"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Metal detectors impose substantial equipment, personnel, training and time costs on schools — related
• Common physical and exclusionary safety measures can cause harm to the very students schools are trying to protect — a broader claim this one bears on
• Students report feeling less safe and more likely to perceive violence and disorder in schools with metal detectors — related
• Metal detector use in US schools has held steady or slightly decreased since the 1990s despite renewed calls after the Parkland shooting — related
• Security cameras show no evidence of improving school safety, and evidence does not support expanding metal detector use — related
• Campus policing and surveillance disproportionately burden students of color, who mostly report police do not make them feel safer — related