Consider how destructive and ugly the practice of police ticketing children for behavior in downstate schools is, when Chicago PD provides this comparatively heroic quote: "We don’t go around trying to collect money from children."
Truly 🤯 examples 👇 propublica.org/article/illino…
When will the govt learn to stop punishing children by depriving then of school? Here we have, AGAIN, the truancy/exclusion ourobouros:
"Abigail, a 16-year-old facing a $200 penalty for truancy missed school again while she waited hours for a prosecutor to call her name."
Jan 25, 2019 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Story is a good summary of the size and scope of the widening safety gap by race, nationally, with important reference to gun violence solve rates.
Many Chicagoans working on these issues are meeting tomorrow AM, so I do want to add a little local context/data +
Many following local reporting on homicide clearance rates in recent years will not be surprised to locate Chicago at the bottom of this chart, though it is always shocking. +
