Discipline

I was watching a sheriff from Florida and he was saying how most of the young people in trouble that he encounters share a background where they were not held responsible for their behavior. He says it happens in the homes and in the schools. The schools are between a rock and a hard place. In the past they did call out students for improper behavior but after a time some enterprising investigator calculated that too many minority students were being disciplined. Rather than assume that too many minorities were misbehaving he assumed it was a racial thing. When his statistics were published it made the school look racist so they had to back off the discipline thing. This same thing occurs in cities where the police chief sends his officers into the high crime areas which results in arresting a lot of minorities. Once the stats come out showing a disproportionate number of minorities the chief pulls his officers out of the high crime areas and crime increases in those areas.