Summary: ARMED GUARDS IN SCHOOLS. After the massacre in a Connecticut school, Los Angeles children returned from the holidays to 600 armed patrols at their schools. Sheriff Joe Arpaio put armed volunteers at schools in Maricopa County, Arizona. And Senator Barbara Boxer introduced legislation to send the National Guard to schools around the country. How will more armed guards and police in schools impact what some describe as the criminalization of Black and Latino students and the “school-to-prison pipeline”? Guests: Manuel Criollo, Director of Community Organizing, Strategy Center, Community Rights Campaign, Los Angeles, CA, www.thestrategycenter.org, www.communityrightscampaign.org; Joao Da Silva, Spokesperson, Dignity in Schools Campaign, New York, NY, www.dignityinschools.org
