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Community First Coalition

CTBBSU’s Community First Coalition (CFC) is a group of youth-led or centered organizations fighting to reimagine public safety without police or policing in our communities.

In February 2022, the CFC launched its inaugural campaign: Care Not Cops. The goal of the Care Not Cops campaign is to dissolve Connecticut’s reliance on police officers in schools and build a system that emphasizes community and care in our educational system.

In June 2023, after three years of work, advocacy, and organizing, Governor Lamont signed our bill into law—making it CT’s most comprehensive legislation to address policing in our schools to date.

In the midst of this historic win for Black futures, youth organizing, and CT, we remain committed to the ongoing cultural, community and policy work required for all of us to have wellness, safety, access, and the ability to live a fulfilling life.

 

 

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Collected Data.

Racial discrimination and inequities have long been documented in our nation’s system of policing, and the impact of uneven policing continuously falls on the heads of our Black and Latinx communities.

With the prevalence of School Resource Officers (SROs), law enforcement officers assigned to schools, the negative impacts of policing follow our youth into their places of learning. Research shows that the presence of SROs in schools increases the likelihood of discipline and arrest for Black and Latinx students, without providing measurably better educational or safety outcomes. This in turn can lead to worse outcomes for students, as research also shows that students who were diverted to social services or school officials rather than arrested were 2.4 less likely to offend than students who were arrested for engaging in similar behavior.

To protect the well-being of our students, we should be looking to counselors, not cops.

 
 
 

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