This report analyzes 25 use-of-force incidents involving 30 students documented by the Slidell Police Department at St. Tammany Parish public schools between January 2021 and April 2025. These incidents were identified by filtering the Slidell Police Department’s (Slidell PD) agency-reported use-of-force dataset for cases that took place on school premises and identified juveniles as the subject of force. Force incidents at schools have sharply declined in recent years, dropping from 24 incidents in 2021-2022 to just 6 incidents in 2023-2025. Black (listed as African American in Slidell Police Department records) students were the subject of 26 of the 30 (86.7%) incidents. Male and female students were represented almost equally. Half of all documented incidents (15 of 30) occurred at a single school, Slidell High School. In most documented incidents—between 19 and 21 of 30, depending on which field of the source records is used—officers documented that the student was arrested in some capacity. The most common charge recorded was a variant of Disturbing the Peace. Four students (13%) were reported as injured. The records describe each documented use of force as having been internally reviewed by Slidell PD and found to be “in accordance with Slidell Police Department Policy.”





