The New York Times continued on Friday its important, but distressing, series of articles on the maltreatment of the developmentally disabled in New York State and the lack of oversight of their care in the state’s group homes. Friday’s article focused on the misuse of antipsychotic medication to restrain residents’ behavior, instead of treating their [...]

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Police arrested 10 students at the Richard R. Green High School in Lower Manhattan Monday after a brawl spun out of control, police and education officials said. The fight broke out in the lobby of the school at 26 Broadway at 11 a.m. Monday, then spread upstairs to the cafeteria, a DOE spokeswoman said. One [...]

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Former OCFS employees are all firmly united in their claims that the root cause of the surge in violence can be traced back to the moment Gladys Carrion assumed the reigns of the OCFS. Many cited a marked increase in gang violence at state facilities as testament to the failure of the administration’s policies. Carrion [...]

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Two Berkshire Farm Center runaways sought by State Police over the weekend were taken into custody late Sunday. Xavier Rowse, of Greenwich, and Austin Parent, of Northumberland, both 16, ran away from the Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth in Caanan late Friday. The youths reportedly stole a 2005 Nissan X-terra from a parking [...]

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TTAPR on September 27th, 2011

Police cars swarmed Monday around Thomas R. Proctor High School, blocking off streets while officers waited on nearby corners for the school’s roughly 2,600 students to be dismissed. The show of force came after a large fight Friday on Hoover Avenue that involved around 150 youths crowding the block surrounding a fight in front of [...]

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Nine bystanders in the hallway of a Bronx high school were hit with mace when a school safety officer sprayed at a student in an attempt to break up a fight on Thursday morning, the police said. The officer tried to intervene in a fistfight between an 18-year-old student and a 16-year-old student outside the [...]

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TTAPR on September 16th, 2011

Daphne Melin, 32, of Long Island was arrested this week after video surfaced of her egging on a schoolyard fight between her 12-year-old daughter and a fellow tween classmate. Cell phone footage of the fight, which occurred outside a local school this past Sunday, also allegedly depicts Melin spitting on another youngster, and then kneeing [...]

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TTAPR on September 15th, 2011

Police are looking for two men wanted in the fatal shooting of high school basketball star, Tayshana Murphy, inside a New York City housing project. Witnesses said 18-year-old Murphy was trying to outrun the shooter in a hallway on the fourth floor of the Grant Houses in Upper Manhattan when she was killed. Police said [...]

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A fight between two teenagers outside North Tonawanda Senior High School sent both of them to area hospitals. See news video

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High-tech surveillance. Metal detectors. Zero tolerance for, well, just about any bad behaviour, real or overblown. Welcome to “Lockdown High,” the title of a sweeping new book by journalist Annette Fuentes, describing how the schoolhouse has become a jailhouse and fear prevails. Dating to Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs launched nearly three decades ago, quelled [...]

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