Pull up the URL for the full article. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0124/ince.shtml # # June 13-19, 2001 # # Cops in Schools Teach a Generation to Live # in Jail Preppin? for Prison # by Adamma Ince # # "The po-po are like recruiters, only they don't want us for the # NBA or the NFL. They want us for jail." # # Three years into a four-year pilot program giving the New York # Police Department control of safety in the public schools, sexual # assaults have increased so dramatically that the City Council # is now arguing for the addition of 200 more cops plus surveillance # cameras in stairwells. # # Many in the community-parents, kids, teachers, and some elected # officials-say the council is ignoring what's really going on. # New York's black and Hispanic families worry that the NYPD's # historic use of discriminatory and aggressive tactics against # minorities has resulted not in protection for their kids, but # in criminalization. They say we've turned our schools into # training grounds for prisons, complete with metal detectors, # frisking, and holding cells. # # As the kids see it, Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to about 5 # p.m., they are eyeballed, stopped, and often bullied by officers # who are trained to track and punish criminals. [snip]