Rethinking School Integration and the Problems of School Policing

• In Event: Legal Pathways of Discrimination

Abstract

This Article examines desegregation and policing as the two interact in the context of schools. Though Brown declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, the day to day reality of police in schools undermines Brown's integrationist objectives. Through school police arrest and citation records and ninety interviews, the Article documents and gives voice to the experiences of Black students policed in predominantly White schools. The Article demonstrates how police in predominantly White schools harm black students, and, it considers what we should do about this dynamic.

Author

• Terry Allen, University of Virginia