--- title: Education: The Danger of Police in Schools description: The danger of putting police in schools, paying troops what they deserve, peer-to-peer solar, our vegetable shortage and more. canonical: https://time.com/4044228/danger-police-in-schools/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-22T16:01:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:33.390Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Danger of Police in Schools og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4044228/danger-police-in-schools/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Danger of Police in Schools twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Danger of Police in Schools by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 22, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 22, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Does putting police in schools create a self-fulfilling prophecy?**](http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/09/when-schooling-meets-policing/406348/) By Melinda D. Anderson in the Atlantic **2\.** [**As recruitment slips, it’s clear we need to give our troops a raise.**](http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/09/give-troops-pay-and-benefits-they-deserve/121433/) By Norb Ryan in Defense One **3\.** [**Think peer-to-peer sharing, but for home solar.**](http://www.fastcoexist.com/3051271/in-vermont-a-forward-thinking-utility-is-helping-customers-share-solar-power) By Ben Schiller in Fast Co.Exist **4\.** [**Even if we wanted to, Americans couldn’t eat the recommended number of vegetables.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/19/441494432/the-u-s-doesnt-have-enough-of-the-vegetables-were-supposed-to-eat) By Tracie McMillan in NPR’s the Salt **5\.** [**To slash carbon emissions, what if we created a market for coal we kept in the ground?**](http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/climate-change-solution-buying-coal-to-never-use-it) By Natalie Shoemaker in Big Think  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4044228/danger-police-in-schools/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4044228/danger-police-in-schools/"},"headline":"The Danger of Police in Schools","datePublished":"2015-09-22T16:01:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:33.390Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4044228/danger-police-in-schools/","keywords":["Innovation","coal","Solar Power","vegetable"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4044228/danger-police-in-schools/","name":"The Danger of Police in Schools"}}]}] ```