An analysis of federal student arrest data “found that Black and indigenous students faced school-based arrests at rates two to three times higher than those of their white counterparts. Among demographic groups, the report found, the arrest rate was particularly stark for boys with disabilities.”
Government watchdog reveals students twice as likely to be arrested when officers are present and their race, gender and disability play pivotal role.
John Oliver had an episode on this some time back. Absolutely infuriating. They had a clip of some DA's paralegal saying that (in that area) they ultimately drop something like 80% of the charges referred to them by ROs. Like, what are we even doing here?
Why do we have cops on schools again? They all run away from shooters so that can't be the real reason