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Thursday, August 2, 2018
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NEWS
Task Force calls for
subpoena power
The group discusses
responsibilites
of future AAPD
review board
By ROB DALKA
Daily Staff Reporter
The Ann Arbor Police Task Force
met Wednesday night to continue
documenting a plan for how the future
official police review board would
operate. Specifically, the task force
discussed the powers and tools the
future commission would need in
order to perform its function of police
oversight.
The group was created in early 2018
to draft a proposal for a police oversight
commission, in response to the police
brutality and misconduct exemplified
by the 2014 police shooting of Aura
Rosser. The task force comprises 11 Ann
Arbor residents.
During the early minutes of the
meeting, Task Force Co-Chair Lori
Saginaw proposed a system for
streamlining the night’s meeting. She
suggested task force members look
at the problems listed in the meeting
documents, which were handed out
to task force members and the other
community members in the audience,
and then identify problems they found
important, share their viewpoints and
offer their solutions.
“Essentially, this page identifies what
I felt were the four issues that we needed
to get everyone’s thoughts on,” Saginaw
said. “As a task force, we can figure out
which ones we agree on, and which
ones we don’t, and work on those.”
This plan for the night was not
adopted however, as members of the
task force felt it was not presented
early enough. Voting member Dwight
Wilson commented he would be
willing to work on the document and
have it prepared for a future meeting.
Voting member Anna Gersh seconded
Wilson’s position. Based on these
shared feelings within the task force, it
was decided to allow members to
work on the document and bring
their completed thoughts to the
next Police Task Force meeting.
At age nine, more
than one in 10 kids
from urban areas
have been expelled
By Katherina Sourine
Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan
released a study in early July
that
explores
elementary
school
disciplinary
policy
in urban cities, focusing on
the demographics of affected
children
and
investigating
how racial inequality can be
fostered at a young age.
Data was collected from
Princeton University’s Fragile
Families & Child Wellbeing
Study,
which
conducted
interviews with the primary
caregivers of approximately
5,000 children born in large
cities
between
1998
and
2000. The U-M study aimed
to explore elementary school
exclusionary
discipline
—
measures
that
remove
a
student from their educational
environment — as well as racial
variations within the policy
and
possible
associations
between
exclusionary
discipline
and
aggressive
behavior.
According
to
the
study,
exclusionary
discipline
is
“anything
but
a
rare
experience”
in
elementary
schools; at age nine, more than
one in 10 children born in urban
areas have had suspension or
expulsion on school records.
Furthermore, these statistics
disproportionately
affect
urban-born
Black
children,
with about 40 percent of
non-Hispanic
black
boys
were suspended or expelled,
compared to 8 percent of non-
Hispanic white or other-race
boys.
Garrett Pace, U-M social
work and sociology doctorate
student,
co-authored
the
study with colleagues from
Pennsylvania State University.
He emphasized the importance
of
implementing
resources
that
foster
more
inclusive
disciplinary
practices,
especially for racial minorities.
“Black
children
are
disproportionately exposed to
exclusionary discipline, and
this is largely due to differences
in
school
characteristics,
family
context,
and
home
environments
rather
than
differences
in
behavior
problems,” Pace wrote in an
email interview.
He
emphasized
the
importance
of
conducting
these
types
of
research
projects at the University in
order to improve the city and
the University’s approaches to
education.
U-M study exposes
racial disparities
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