Defunding / abolishing school police (consolidated thread)

6-year-old's arrest raises questions about school discipline, behavioral disorders

One of the children arrested has sleep apnea ... These behaviors are, understandably, challenging for teachers and school staff to address. “If the child is consistently acting out during a particular ...

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https://www.mycentraloregon.com/2019/09/30/6-year-olds-arrest-raises-questions-about-school-discipline-behavioral-disorders/

 

Nearly 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: FBI

The district said he “attacked” the teacher and continued to fight her even after she ... In 2017, 23 children under the age of 10 were arrested for rape, 13 for robbery, 52 for arson, and 362 for ...

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https://www.informnny.com/news/nearly-30000-children-under-age-10-have-been-arrested-in-the-us-since-2013-fbi/

 

FBI: Nearly 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the U.S. since 2013

The district said he "attacked" the teacher and continued to fight her even after she ... In 2017, 23 children under the age of 10 were arrested for rape, 13 for robbery, 52 for arson, and 362 for ...

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https://www.turnto23.com/news/national/fbi-nearly-30-000-children-under-age-10-have-been-arrested-in-the-u-s-since-2013

 

Nearly 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: FBI

The district said he "attacked" the teacher and continued to fight her ... In 2017, 23 children under the age of 10 were arrested for rape, 13 for robbery, 52 for arson, and 362 for larceny ...

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https://abc7ny.com/nearly-30000-children-under-age-10-have-been-arrested-in-the-us-since-2013-fbi/5579231/

 

Nearly 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: FBI

The district said he "attacked" the teacher and continued to fight her ... In 2017, 23 children under the age of 10 were arrested for rape, 13 for robbery, 52 for arson, and 362 for larceny ...

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https://abc7news.com/nearly-30000-children-under-age-10-have-been-arrested-in-the-us-since-2013-fbi/5579231/

 

Nearly 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: FBI

The district said he "attacked" the teacher and continued to fight her ... In 2017, 23 children under the age of 10 were arrested for rape, 13 for robbery, 52 for arson, and 362 for larceny ...

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https://abc11.com/nearly-30000-children-under-age-10-have-been-arrested-in-the-us-since-2013-fbi/5579231/

 

Arrests of 6-Year-Olds Shows the Perils of Putting Police in Primary Schools

Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala declined to prosecute the students arrested in Orlando ... discipline comes as a result of pressure from teachers and administrators to be involved.

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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/arrests-6-year-olds-shows-perils-putting-police-primary-schools-84651

 

Thousands of children under age ten arrested every year in the United States

A report by ABC News on Monday noted that nearly 30,000 children under the age of 10 have been arrested just between 2013 and 2017 ... him to the ground after he had a tantrum because a teacher pulled ...

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/01/poli-o01.html

 

More than 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: FBI

The district said he "attacked" the teacher and continued to fight her ... In 2018, 155 children under the age of 10 were arrested for possessing weapons, 22 were arrested for rape, 11 for robbery ...

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https://abc13.com/more-than-30000-children-under-age-10-have-been-arrested-in-the-us-since-2013-fbi/5579231/

 

More than 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: FBI

The district said he "attacked" the teacher and continued to fight her ... In 2018, 155 children under the age of 10 were arrested for possessing weapons, 22 were arrested for rape, 11 for robbery ...

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https://abc7chicago.com/more-than-30000-children-under-age-10-have-been-arrested-in-the-us-since-2013-fbi/5579231/

 

Orlando police officer who arrested 6-year-olds returned to work at charter school the next day, records show

Darryl Smith, the Orlando attorney representing the family of 6-year-old Kaia Rolle, who was arrested by Turner ... “support staff" and on the school’s website as a first-grade teacher, denied asking ...

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https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-dennis-turner-lucious-emma-nixon-20191001-vux7inuworf7zpckisdrypmxbm-story.html

 

Orlando police officer who arrested 6-year-olds returned to work at charter school the next day, records show

Darryl Smith, the Orlando attorney representing the family of 6-year-old Kaia Rolle, who was arrested by Turner ... “support staff" and on the school’s website as a first-grade teacher, denied asking ...

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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/os-ne-dennis-turner-lucious-emma-nixon-20191001-vux7inuworf7zpckisdrypmxbm-story.html

 

Orlando cop sparks outrage for arresting 6-year-olds

He was arrested by Apopka police in 1998 after welts and bruises ... We don't know if this particular child has a previous history of unruly behavior. We do know teachers and administrators often deal ...

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http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=276563

 

Arrests of 6-year-olds shows the perils of putting police in primary schools | The Conversation

In fact, my colleagues and I have found that as many as 12% of teachers experience threats of or actual physical attacks from students each year. Indeed, in the case in Orlando, one of the 6-year-olds ...

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https://www.morningjournal.com/opinion/arrests-of--year-olds-shows-the-perils-of-putting/article_f7158f76-7afb-535c-9aa9-392ebe8362ae.html

 

Arrests of 6-Year-Olds Show the Perils of Putting Police in Elementary Schools

When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids safe. But as the arrest of two six-year-olds in a Florida school in October has shown, sometimes one threat to the students is the officers themselves. Instead of being protected, these very young students were placed in handcuffs and arrested. Each one faced misdemeanor battery charges as a result of behavioral outbursts at school, including one instance in which one of the children kicked a school staffer. While the arrests of the two elementary students in Orlando are not everyday occurrences, ...

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https://www.routefifty.com/public-s...6-year-olds-police-elementary-schools/160216/

 

Arrests of 6-Year-Olds Show the Perils of Putting Police in Elementary Schools

When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids safe. But as the arrest of two six-year-olds in a Florida school in October has shown, sometimes one threat to the students is the officers themselves. Instead of being protected, these very young students were placed in handcuffs and arrested. Each one faced misdemeanor battery charges as a result of behavioral outbursts at school, including one instance in which one of the children kicked a school staffer. While the arrests of the two elementary students in Orlando are not everyday occurrences, ...

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https://www.routefifty.com/public-s...6-year-olds-police-elementary-schools/160216/

 

OPINION: Let’s never see another first-grader in handcuffs

Two first-graders in Florida are not the same children today as they were last month. Consider the distress, fear and confusion that being forcibly taken, handcuffed and driven away from your school by a police officer would cause in any 6-year-old you know. Imagine it’s your child, your grandchild. We both worked in the Obama administration, one of us as a senior policy advisor for early childhood development, and the other as a deputy assistant to the president and policy lead on criminal justice reform. Though we shared an office suite at the White House, our work worlds rarely collided. ...

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https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-lets-never-see-another-first-grader-in-handcuffs/

 

Arrests of 6-Year-Olds Shows the Perils of Putting Police in Primary Schools

When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids safe. But as the arrest of two six-year-olds in a Florida school in October has shown, sometimes one threat to the students is the officers themselves. Instead of being protected, these very young students were placed in handcuffs and arrested. Each one faced misdemeanor battery charges as a result of behavioral outbursts at school, including one instance in which one of the children kicked a school staffer. While the arrests of the two elementary students in Orlando are not everyday occurrences, ...

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https://goodmenproject.com/featured...-perils-of-putting-police-in-primary-schools/

 

Arrests of 6-Year-Olds Shows the Perils of Putting Police in Primary Schools

When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids safe. But as the arrest of two six-year-olds in a Florida school in October has shown, sometimes one threat to the students is the officers themselves. Instead of being protected, these very young students were placed in handcuffs and arrested. Each one faced misdemeanor battery charges as a result of behavioral outbursts at school, including one instance in which one of the children kicked a school staffer. While the arrests of the two elementary students in Orlando are not everyday occurrences, ...

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https://goodmenproject.com/featured...-perils-of-putting-police-in-primary-schools/

 

Video Shows Florida Police Officer Arrest Crying 6-Year-Old Girl For Having School Tantrum: 'Please Let Me Go'

Video has been released showing the moment a 6-year-old girl in Florida was arrested and led away to a police car after throwing a tantrum at her school. Kaia Rolle's arrest for battery made national news last September after she allegedly kicked one of her teachers at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy in Orlando while they were attempting to calm her down. More than five months later, body cam footage taken from one of the arresting officers, Dennis Turner, has been released and shared by Kaia's family's attorney to local news sites including Click Orlando and WESH. During the clip, ...

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https://www.newsweek.com/florida-girl-six-arrest-video-kaia-rolle-officer-turner-1488949