This article explains how Street Law helps teachers to defuse tensions between students and police through a combination of education, empathy, and expertise. Street Law was born at Georgetown in 1972. Every year, it sends two dozen law students like Courtney Donovan into Washington, D.C., high schools to help teach the year long course. Street Law meets five days a week, with law students teaching three or four of the sessions and the regular high school teacher overseeing the other classes. Street Law gives the students knowledge about their civil rights, and how police are supposed to behave. Along the way, students learn about the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, personal responsibility and the tools they have to protect themselves from over-the-top cops. Some Washington, D.C. judges even offer minor juvenile offenders the opportunity to have their record expunged if they successfully complete a Street Law course. In the end, it is about more than upholding the law. It is about teaching students to uphold society and become civic contributors.