Chokeholds, Brain Injuries, Beatings: When School Cops Go Bad
Mother Jones has the article Chokeholds, Brain Injuries, Beatings: When School Cops Go Bad.
Last March, the US Department of Education reported that 92,000 students were subject to school-related arrests in the 2011-2012 academic year, the first time the agency collected and published such data. Black students comprised 16 percent of the total students enrolled but accounted for 31 percent of arrests. And a quarter of the total arrested were students with disabilities, despite that they comprised only 12 percent of the student population.
Let’s just hope that when Tantasqua Regional High School gets its school resource officer that he or she is well trained to not be one of the problems added to whatever ones the school already has.