Texas School Police Pepper-Sprayed, Tackled and Tasered Students | A New York Times and San Antonio Express-News Investigation

Texas Students Pepper-Sprayed, Tased, and Tackled by School Police

Austin, Texas — A major investigation by The New York Times and the San Antonio Express-News found that Texas school police officers have increasingly used force against students following a statewide expansion of campus policing after the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde. The investigation identified more than 2,600 use-of-force incidents between January 2022 and December 2025 across districts that provided records. Reporters docu…

Texas school police pepper-sprayed, tackled and tasered students

School officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, investigation shows.

Texas school police pepper-sprayed, tackled and tasered students | A New York Times and San Antonio Express-News investigation

Since the massacre at Robb Elementary in 2022, school districts across Texas have spent billions of dollars to station police officers on every campus in the state.

NY Times: Police Brutality Has Come to Texas Classrooms

For years, I’ve argued that putting more armed officers in schools is not the magic solution many people think it is. After school shootings, especially high-profile ones, politicians inevitably start calling for more school resource officers, more security, and more police presence. The idea sounds simple enough. If there are more cops in schools, surely schools will be safer. The problem is that reality keeps getting in the way of that argumen…