In the world's most heavily-armed country, can anything actually make schools safe from gun violence? Can police prevent school shootings? And why are officers in schools to begin with?

In this four-part documentary series, producer and host Emily Reeves returns to her old high school in East Lansing, Michigan, where the discovery of a gun ignited intense fears of school shootings and led to a community reckoning over school safety, racial equity, and the role of police in schools.

A Webby Nominee for Best Indie Series—Limited Run and an Editor’s Pick by Apple Podcasts, Violence Week asks these big questions about what it’s like to be a teenager in an era of school shootings.