NYPD Stats: About Five City Students Arrested Daily In Later Part Of 2011
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Police have arrested an average of about five students during school each day over the last three months of last year, according to NYPD data.
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Between October 1 to December 31, 279 city school students were arrested and another 532 students were issued summonses.
About 63 percent of those issued were for disorderly conduct.
The data also shows nearly 94 percent of students arrested were black or Latino and 75 percent were male.
Advocates said police action exposes at-risk students to the criminal justice system in a negative way and does not make schools safer.
"Transforming student misbehavior into a criminal offense, instead of something we deal with with educational approaches and positive interventions is disastrous for the children and it undermines their education," said Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
NY1 has reached out to the Department of Education for comment.