Black and Latino youths are still being arrested at disproportionately higher rates than their white and Asian counterparts, a new analysis shows, as the debate over uneven policing rages in New York City
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The group cross referenced arrest data over the last four school years. POLITICO independently verified the statistics. Black youths in particular are overrepresented across the categories. They made up 59.2 percent percent of arrests, 50.4 percent of summonses and about 51.98 percent of juvenile reports in the 2019-20 school year.
The city’s $88.2 billion budget was touted by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council as including $1 billion in cuts to the NYPD’s $6 billion budget. Those cuts, including a $300 million shift of safety agents form the NYPD to the education department,, though city officials have promised to begin the process in November.
Youth and advocates note the money is still being spent on school policing and the program is largely funded by DOE already. Her school is a combined middle and high school and they don’t have many guidance counselors or mental health professionals.
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