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Thursday, August 2, 2018
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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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