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Advocates say disproportionate number of black kids arrested at Chicago schools
By Linda Paul | Jan. 25, 2012
If you look at all Chicago arrests of juveniles in 2010, a fifth occurred on Chicago Public Schools property. That’s way too many arrests, according to a report out from Project NIA, a Chicago-based advocacy group that works against incarceration of kids.
The Chicago police department data that NIA crunched found 5,574 juvenile arrests on CPS property in 2010.
Of those arrests, about three-quarters involved African-American youth, even though black students comprise 45 percent of the school population.
The researchers found about a third of all arrests were for simple battery. The next highest categories were drug abuse violations and disorderly conduct.
Project NIA’s report calls for CPS to “redirect resources away from policing” and says CPS should beef up so-called restorative justice programs, which can help resolve problems before the police become involved.
In a statement, CPS said it will be reviewing the report, and getting feedback on ways to provide safe environments for students at all schools.
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These disproportionate arrests are the direct cause of the huge achievement gap between minority teens and their non-minority counterparts in both Math and Reading. Kids of color spend a lot more time outside of the classroom because of the very blatant disparity in arrests, expulsions and out of school suspensions that Push our kids Out of School into the School-to-Prison pipeline. The Restorative Justice Plan outlined in the CPS Handbook is a policy in name only and rarely implemented in the very situations for which the policy was created, to help the students and communities that would most benefit from alternative discplinary actions.
Wow when did we find out that arrest are dis-proportioned. WAKE UP PEOPLE!