Changing The Role Of Police In Schools; and Mindy Fugarino On School to Prison Pipeline

Changing The Role Of Police In Schools **A rebroadcast from January 2018 Police officers are fixtures in most schools today and their role has changed over time from protecting the students from outside dangers to enforcing school rules and even arresting students for violations. Our guest has been working with one school district to develop a Memorandum Of Understanding between the police and school administrators and hopefully turn off the school to prison pipeline. Host Teresa Wilke talks with Micheal Kay, Preofessor of Law Emeritas at Washburn University about his work with the police and school administrators to define the role of officers in their schools. Mindy Fugarino On School to Prison Pipeline Sister Berta of Operation Breakthrough told our host “Keith, the KCMO schools are basically a feeder system for prisons.” We now commonly refer to it as “pipeline to prison.” Some might not agree that it’s exclusively the fault of the KCMO or KCK School Districts. but the fact is that many, many arrests occur in the urban areas of Kansas City (both sides of the state line.) As we contemplate putting more police inside our schools to protect students from gun violence we must take a hard…