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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor More Teens, Arrests by Police Replace School Discipline
http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-more-teens-arrests-by-police-replace-school-discipline-1413858602Stephen Perry, now 18 years old, was trying to avoid a water balloon fight in 2013 when he was swept up by police at his Wake County, N.C., high school; he revealed he had a small pocketknife and was charged with weapons possession. Rashe France was a 12-year-old seventh-grader when he was arrested in Southaven, Miss., charged with disturbing the peace on school property after a minor hallway altercation.
In Texas, a student got a misdemeanor ticket for wearing too much perfume. In Wisconsin, a teen was charged with theft after sharing the chicken nuggets from a classmates mealthe classmate was on lunch assistance and sharing it meant the teen had violated the law, authorities said. In Florida, a student conducted a science experiment before the authorization of her teacher; when it went awry she received a felony weapons charge.
Over the past 20 years, prompted by changing police tactics and a zero-tolerance attitude toward small crimes, authorities have made more than a quarter of a billion arrests, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates. Nearly one out of every three American adults are on file in the FBIs master criminal database.
This arrest wave, in many ways, starts at school. Concern by parents and school officials over drug use and a spate of shootings prompted a rapid buildup of police officers on campus and led to school administrators referring minor infractions to local authorities. That has turned traditional school discipline, memorialized in Hollywood coming-of-age movies such as The Breakfast Club, into something that looks more like the adult criminal-justice system.
In Texas, a student got a misdemeanor ticket for wearing too much perfume. In Wisconsin, a teen was charged with theft after sharing the chicken nuggets from a classmates mealthe classmate was on lunch assistance and sharing it meant the teen had violated the law, authorities said. In Florida, a student conducted a science experiment before the authorization of her teacher; when it went awry she received a felony weapons charge.
Over the past 20 years, prompted by changing police tactics and a zero-tolerance attitude toward small crimes, authorities have made more than a quarter of a billion arrests, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates. Nearly one out of every three American adults are on file in the FBIs master criminal database.
This arrest wave, in many ways, starts at school. Concern by parents and school officials over drug use and a spate of shootings prompted a rapid buildup of police officers on campus and led to school administrators referring minor infractions to local authorities. That has turned traditional school discipline, memorialized in Hollywood coming-of-age movies such as The Breakfast Club, into something that looks more like the adult criminal-justice system.
The school-to-prison pipeline needs to be derailed even more than KXL. Nice to see the W$J reporting on it, though.
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For More Teens, Arrests by Police Replace School Discipline (Original Post)
KamaAina
Oct 2014
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. Jeez...
I swear if it wasn't for our military we'd be laughing stocks.
China, Europe... in a couple of years Brazil will be kicking our ass at the important stuff, too.
Initech
(100,079 posts)2. Zero tolerance policies need to be declared unconstitutional.
I'm really surprised that this crap hasn't been brought to SCOTUS yet. The pipeline needs to be cut off at the source.