- Zero tolerance policy doesn’t apply to everyone equally.
- Blacks and Latinos are 29% of public school students but “are 70% of in-school arrests or referrals to law enforcement.”
- 32% of youth in special detention are special needs students.
* From NAACP Criminal Justice Fact Sheet: Combining the number of people in prison and jail with those under parole or probation supervision, 1 in every 31 adults, or 3.2% of the (USA) population is under some form of correctional control.
one path treats human potential as the most important commodity, the other path treats the human body as a parasite on the producing population. you can choose the path your society follows by thinking about it. /// HARD!
SMDH
Charles Peller … this short video shows why the issue is a Black and Brown Issue, not an everybody one.