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Out of the 882 students NYPD arrested in 2011, 96% of those students were black or Latino, according to a study released by NYCLU on Monday. Seventy-four percent of the students arrested by NYPD were male. An average of four students are arrested and seven summoned each day over the course of the 216 high school and 209 middle school days in “the big apple”. The majority of the arrests, 48%, occurred at schools in Bronx.
NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said in a statement:
We’ve now collected a year’s worth of data demonstrating how the impact of heavy-handed policing in city schools falls squarely on the shoulders of black students and young men, who are being subjected to a disproportionate number of arrests at school. If the Bloomberg administration is serious about helping young men of color succeed, then it must address these disparities and focus more resources on educating children, not arresting them.
NYCLU’s study is the result of a newly enacted Student Safety Act, requiring police officers to report student arrests and student encounters to the City Council on a quarterly basis. A spokesman from NYPD refutes NYCLU’s belief that most of the crimes committed by the students are petty violations. Paul Brown, the department’s Chief Spokesman said “They would often like to portray them as simple spats between schoolchildren. But, unfortunately, that is not often the case. It can involve serious assaults, with weapons, and including s****l assaults and including serious crimes.”
No matter anyone’s belief, statistics prove minority students are always placed at a disadvantage. In March, an analysis of federal data showed minority students across the nation to have less access to advanced courses. Black students were also found to be three and a half times as likely as white students to be either suspended or expelled. Salaries for teachers in schools with high populations of minority students were also notably less.
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BlacknProud
August 17, 2012 at 8:43 pm
This of course comes as no surprise. Black numbers are higher than Latino as well, but we are so intent on this current trend of mentioning Latino or brown with Black to validate Black. While we continually include Latino in our issues they don’t do the same. We need to address our issues specific to us unapologetically and expect and demand they be equally and fairly addressed.
bernice
August 17, 2012 at 6:56 pm
This is a very sad story Mr. Flannery. but this story is one of many all around the world as you said. I some times wonder what is the racio of good people who look at other people like they are people and those who hate just because they can. If people who like people verses people who hate just because they can –Who would wen? The world had a lot of time to pratice. It is like a game. How many can you kill in a short amount of time. The one who kill the most will eat dinner tonight.
dorothy
August 17, 2012 at 3:02 pm
There is a day all will reap what they sow. Pray for those who despitefuly misuse you. Let have a day of prayer for the way our men are treated and abused. The prayers of a rightous man availith much. All politics are local. Pray and Vote Obama 2012 God I pray right now that you look on your people and bless them. God stop the blockers right now.
Michael Flannery
August 17, 2012 at 3:36 am
And not just in America.
Years ago,in Manchester, England, I had a girlfriend who, although born in the UK was of Jamaican parentage. I am caucasian. I picked her and her 6 yrs old daughter up for a day out at the beach, and she asked me if we could first call by her father’s house as she wanted to take some stew for his dinner.
I was parked at the end of the road where her father lived, and as she returned to the car, a Jamaican man started talking to her and walked with her back to the car. He was a friend of her father and was asking about him. She got into the car and they continued talking for a short while, I picked up my (pure tobacco) packet of branded cigarettes, took one out, and then offered one to the guy, which he took and thanked me.
Shortly, we pulled off and on to the main road.
Within two minutes, two cars sandwiched me at some traffic lights, several guys jumped out brandishing baseball bats. They smashed in the driver’s side window, opened the door, dragged me out and handcuffed me. At no stage during this did I ever hear the word “police”. I was arrested for suspected drug dealing, and held in cells and questioned for several hours before being released without charges (nor anything resembling an apology).
My car had been internally dismantled in a (vain of course) search for the drugs in which I was supposedly dealing. My windscreen and driver side window were both smashed in. My girlfriend and her daughter were both released without charges.
To this day, I am 100% convinced that this would not have occurred had my girflriend and her father’s friend happened to be white.
I wrote a letter of complaint to the chief constable, and the response was that it was unfortunate that I was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” perhaps omitting to add “in the wrong coloured company”
Profiling or what?
So I can partially appreciate what it must be like to be a law-abiding citizen whose skin is of a darker hue. Frightening, and perhaps difficult (to have any respect for law enforcement).
BigWill
August 25, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Michael, thanks for telling your experience with these snakes. I know this sounds bad but, I wish 99.9% of average caucasians were forced to endure what many melanin people go through on a regular basis.
Surealist chique
August 16, 2012 at 7:31 pm
The reality of the facts are that white kids commit as many crimes as
Black kids and at the same magnitude, be it petty crimes or assaults and otherwise.
The difference is police are in black schools heavily. There is an expectation of
Black kids to behave badly because of the plethora of social issues they
Are subject to. If they can map this out than they can also enstate prevention
That may cause this misbehavior.
Additionally, police and the Judicial system sympathizes with young white
Offenders and even unconciously hold contempt for young black offenders.
This is a social issue. It is a wide spread phenomena that no one wants to
Talk about.
White students with be given the benefit of the doubt while black students
Will be and are often given The axe! Why is this?
Post racial America? NOT
TODAY!
ALLISON
August 16, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Accountably is key and if the majority of the arrests are that of black and hispanic school students then racial profiling may be taking place, or white school students don’t commit crimes?
John H Hill
August 16, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Are the arrests valid, false or what?
DaTruth
August 16, 2012 at 9:39 pm
To be sure these arrests r disproportionate, yet not surprising. This is known as the school to prison pipeline that is thriving all over the country now n greater nos. All arrests r of blks & browns, suggesting that white youth don’t commit crimes. Soooooo preposterous & farfetched on its face! This is Racism 101! Whites commit crime @ the same rate as blks & browns. Its just that they r not targeted for the prison industrial complex n the same way as blks & browns & r given several chances when they mess up. I can almost bet that most “crimes” r for incidences that we would have been sent to the principal’s office for yrs ago.
bernice
August 16, 2012 at 1:45 pm
I think that our comments are watched carfully because I have written in my comment three times and it was not published
bernice
August 16, 2012 at 1:27 pm
I have replyed three time and somehow my remarks are not put out there for you to see
Joseph L. Bass, EdD
August 16, 2012 at 11:37 am
Have you noticed that police TV shows and movies are always in big cities that have the worst police departments like Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, D.C., Miami, etc.? Officers and citizens from these big cities are shown as smart and fashionable. And the casts in these shows are always racially mixed and all of them get along like brothers and sisters. Many of the bad guys are rich, white people and the officers are always being nice to students, particularly students of color.
Have you also noticed that these shows frequently depict officers and citizens from smaller jurisdictions as being dumb, country bumpkins that are poorly dressed? And many of the country bumpkins are white bigots.
Is it possible that the people that create these police TV shows and movies are trying to get us to ignore the truth about big city police? Joseph L. Bass, Ed.D. http://www.abettersociety.info