NY: ACLU Sues NYC to Eliminate School to Prison Pipeline

ACLU is suing again. Whether they actually have a case or are just using their name and leverage to influence policy — who knows.

ACLU is alleging that the NYPD personnel assigned to the city’s public middle and high schools have a pattern of abuse, unlawful arrests and excessive force against minority students. Out of 1.1 million students the NY Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of 5 high school students who alleged they were wrongfully handcuffed and arrested.

According the article, there are 500 annual reports of excessive force. No number or even guestimate is given by that reporter as to how many incidents NYPD actually have to deal with per year. In a 2004 NYS Comptroller Alan Hevesi found over 7,000 disruptive or violent incidents at 17 NY High Schools. There are approximately 1600 schools in NYC and 450,000 middle and high school students.  Full Article.

What is true is that the NYC teachers union does not want their teachers intervening. In at least some part this is one reason NYPD took control of public school safety in New York. Another reason is that some of the schools were really unsafe.

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One Response to NY: ACLU Sues NYC to Eliminate School to Prison Pipeline

  1. CP says:

    The logical fallacy here is pretty blatant: “it appears that this problem isn’t widespread based on my personal estimations; therefore, it is not a problem worth suing over.”

    Certifying a class is very difficult, and a suit of 5 isn’t inherently indicative of an inability to find abused students.

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