For More Teens, Arrests by Police Replace School Discipline

[Mark Kohut]

The Bigfooting of school. 

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> On Dec 12, 2015, at 7:25 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> http://www.wsj.com/articles/for-more-teens-arrests-by-police-replace-school-discipline-1413858602
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