NYPD police arrest black & latino students at an alarming rate.

Police made an average of four arrests and issued seven summons a day last year in New York City public schools, overwhelmingly involving blacks or Latinos.

The New York Civil Liberties Union analysis was the first look at a full year of New York Police Department statistics under new City Council requirements to document and disclose school safety data.

The data showed that from July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012, officers in the School Safety Division made 882 arrests and issued 1,666 summonses. More than 95% of the people involved were black or Latino. The data didn't include arrests made by police officers assigned to precincts called into schools to handle problems. The data also didn't indicate whether the people arrested were students.

Nearly 75% of the incidents involved males, and about 20% were children between 11 and 14 years old. The most frequent incidents included disorderly conduct and harassment.

NYCLU Advocacy Director Udi Ofer said the police shouldn't be "in the business of school discipline," and schools should handle problems internally.

"What used to be a walk to the principal's office is now a walk in handcuffs to the local precinct," he said.

Summonses, he said, could result in a student being handcuffed in front of other students, fined, required to appear in court or even result in an arrest warrant if ignored.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said the NYCLU "persists in smearing school safety agents and police officers who do good work professionally and in an unbiased manner." He said the group unfairly focused on the race of the subjects involved, saying that the percentage of blacks and Latinos involved was in line with descriptions of suspects provided by victims.
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