Do officers belong in schools? Districts cut ties, debate best path to safety.

“I don’t know that the marginal costs of [school] policing have changed,” Emily Owens, professor of criminology, law and society, who studies school police programs, tells The Christian Science Monitor. What’s changed, she says, is that “the marginal costs [are now seen as] so much higher than the perceived marginal benefits that people are finally demanding government leaders do something.”

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