NYC school arrests cut in half amid policing reforms
The number of arrests at city schools plummeted during the first months of the school year in the wake of recent reforms that discouraged arrests for more minor offenses, new data shows.
NYPD officers made fewer than 150 arrests in city schools between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019 — about half the number of arrests cops made during the same months the previous year. The number of court summonses for schoolkids fell even more dramatically — from 124 in the last quarter of 2018 to 51 in 2019, a drop of 59%.
