The Virginia school policing system needs an overhaul that emphasizes training, data collection and a clear role for officers in schools, says a newreport from the Legal Aid Justice Center.
Without a better system, the state will continue to criminalize students for behaviors that schools should deal with, not law enforcement, the center said.
Virginia leads the country in referrals of students to law enforcement, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity.
The state doesn’t track how students enter the pipeline that leads from school to the criminal justice system or track measures such as school-based searches, interrogations, uses of force, arrests or court referrals.
[For more of this story, written by Sarah Barr, go to http://jjie.org/virginia-needs...-report-says/171259/]
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