Schools of the 21st century face unparalleled safety challenges. On one side, mass shootings have become a consistent, recurring threat, resulting from uncontrolled access to firearms. Saphron Initiative and Saphron Initiative’s endorsees back efforts to ensure gun access for minors is viably blocked off—and that firearms don’t reach hands of those who are mentally disturbed. Saphron Initiative has a strong record in advocating for student safety, having co-launched BanAssaultRifles.com and reaching more than 60,000 digital messages sent to legislators. On the other hand, policing of schools abets these safety challenges in hurting students by criminalizing youth at disparate rates and strengthening the school-to-prison pipeline. School-based police officers, commonly known as School Resource Officers (SROs), also detrimentally impact student safety. A 2019 research study published in the medical JAMA network found that the mortality rate in school shootings over the last few decades was 2.83 times greater in schools equipped with SROs on campus than in those without. Saphron Initiative advocates for restorative justice in lieu of school policing and endorses the principle of no policing in schools by eliminating and refusing to renew MOUs with local police departments.