April 17, 2015

Virginia worst state for calling cops on kids

Center for Public Integrity - U.S. Department of Education data analyzed by the Center for Public Integrity show that Virginia schools in a single year referred students to law enforcement agencies at a rate nearly three times the national rate. Virginia’s referral rate: about 16 for every 1,000 students, compared to a national rate of six referrals for every 1,000 students. In Virginia, some of the individual schools with highest rates of referral — in one case 228 per 1,000 — were middle schools, whose students are usually from 11 to 14 years old.

Worst states
Virginia
Delaware
Florida
Wyoming
New Hampshire
Montana
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Pennsylvania

Best States
Hawaii
District of Columbia
Nevada
Ohio
Massachusetts 

Story includes breakdown by ethnicity
 

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