13 Reasons Why takes on police in schools amid George Floyd protests

Los Angeles Times

Amid the police brutality protests, the Netflix teen series found itself ahead of the curve with final season episode was inspired by an ACLU "Cops and No Counselor" study that found that "there are more than 14 million students in schools with police but no counselor, nurse, psychologist or social worker.” “We started writing the season by asking how Liberty High would respond to everything that’s happened at their school,” the 13 Reasons Why writers said in a joint statement to the Los Angeles Times. “We researched what schools have implemented to make campuses ‘safer,’ and we chose to have Liberty institute many of those measures. And then we explored the conflict that emerged, at Liberty as it often has in real life, between young people and the adults who are trying to protect them with measures that may be overly stringent, eroding of trust, or even harmfully misguided."