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Do police make schools safer?

After each school shooting, the call goes up for more police in schools. But research shows police do not make schools safer.

Here  & Now‘s Celeste Headlee talks with Marc Schindler, executive director of the Justice Policy Institute and co-author of a Brookings Institution report on police in schools.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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