Promising Practices - Archives
Give kids control to mediate an unarmed robbery? “I thought, are you crazy? Isn’t that what got them into trouble in the first place?”
Then Det. Vanessa Cruz of the MBTA Transit Police Department was told that she would have to leave the room during the mediation and that what happened inside the room would be confidential—except for the agreement between the parties.
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Multnomah County is often on the cutting edge of innovation for juvenile detention reform. Innovations in training the city's police force to work with youth is another example of out-of-the-box thinking.
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Something had to give. The courts were paralyzed by the influx of youth arrested in the schools. The police could not keep up with the paperwork demands of all the arrests, much less the court time or the time out of the schools.
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STOPWATCH aims at reducing the anonymity of youth in the transit environment and decreasing the number of youth who use stations to congregate before, during or after school.
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Imagine cops catching kids for positive behavior? It totally goes against the old paradigm of the reactive, post incident, corrective model we currently operate within. Reward the positive and your return on investment will be more positive action from a young person.
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Changing the Playbook for Police in Schools
