2 Thursday, August 2, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 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. 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