A Harvard Kennedy School study released this month suggests a direct link between police violence and diminished academic performance of inner-city students.
HKS public policy professor Desmond W. Ang analyzed data from more than 600 police killings and more than 700,000 high school students in a large, urban county, and noticed significant drop offs in students’ educational outcomes and mental health following the killings.
Ang published his findings in the June issue of the HKS Faculty…