WASHINGTON (AP) — To supporters, zero-tolerance policing has long represented a logical crime-fighting approach: Crack down on minor infractions before they mushroom into more serious and disruptive violence.
But a scathing federal government report on the Baltimore Police Department suggests the costs of that strategy outweigh any reduction in crime. The Justice Department report released Wednesday blames zero-tolerance policing for a legacy of discriminatory law enforcement in which black residents are disproportionately stopped and searched without cause.
Boston's public school system has over 100 teachers on payroll who have no classroom assignment for the coming fall, hitting the city with an $8 million bill to pay teachers who are doing very little.
