APS handcuffs hundreds of students

From KRQE-TV.com - by Crystal Gutierrez - ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The Albuquerque Public Schools district is getting national attention for its cops on campus in an article that highlights a debate on when school policing goes to far. FOX News recently published an Associated Press story that highlights arrests made in a handful of school districts including APS. According to the AP, in 2009 and 2010 more than 900 APS students were referred to the criminal justice system. It states of those around 500 were handcuffed and sent to the juvenile detention, and about 200 were for minor, nonviolent misdemeanors. The 200 listed became the basis for a lawsuit filed against the Albuquerque Police Department by Attorney Shannon Kennedy. “What Albuquerque has done to its public school kids by handcuffing them is outrageous,” Kennedy said. Kennedy said the complaints came from parents. She said some of the kids listed in the suit were arrested for minor offenses like talking in class, talking back to authorities or having cell phones. Read more

APS handcuffs hundreds of students