Race gap in school busts

ABLACK AND Hispanic students were far more likely to be arrested, restrained or issued summonses in public schools than their white peers this year, a Daily News analysis of NYPD data shows.

The NYPD released the stats, which tally all police activity in public schools from January through March, for the first time on Thursday.

A News analysis shows that black and Hispanic students were involved in roughly 93% of all law enforcement action in city schools, although they accounted for only 68% of all students.

Activists say the uneven numbers hint at deeper problems of inequality and injustice in the public school system.

“Black and Latino students continue to suffer the most from dehumanizing and traumatic contact with the police,” said Zakiyah Ansari, director of the Alliance for Quality Education Advocacy.

“In the city’s attempts to dismantle

O R O W PUBLIC SCHOOL POPULATION

• Black and Hispanic: • White:

LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

(Jan.- March 2016): • Black and Hispanic students: • White students: • Total incidents:

HANDCUFFING INCIDENTS

• Black and Hispanic students: • White students: • Total incidents: the school-to-prison pipeline, one of the biggest considerations should be reevaluating the NYPD’s role in our schools,” Ansari added.

Police statistics show crime in city schools continued to fall in 2016, perpetuating a 50 % drop in overall crimes reported in public schools over the past five years.

But black and Hispanic students were targeted in 93% of all arrests and summonses issued in schools from January to March, accounting for 1,118 out of 1,208 reported incidents.

By contrast, white kids — who make up 15% of all students in the public schools — were targeted in just 38 arrests and summonses, accounting for only 3% of the total.

Likewise, police handcuffed black and Hispanic kids 627 times in city schools from January to March, while white students were restrained in only 14 out of 673 reported incidents.

Assistant Chief Brian Conroy said the NYPD will meet with representatives of City Hall and the city Education Department on a quarterly basis to tackle the issue of racial disparities in police activity at schools.

“We are very concerned that the racial disparity still exists, even with the lower enforcement numbers,” he said.

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