For More Teens, Arrests by Police Replace School Discipline

[ish mailian]

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
FBI’s 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.


http://www.wsj.com/articles/for-more-teens-arrests-by-police-replace-school-discipline-1413858602
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