"Fifteen-year-old Latia Smith said she was a bystander during a fight at school between two girls when a police officer threatened her with arrest, grabbed her and dislocated her shoulder." With other examples followed up by interviews, statistics, history, official comment, advocacy group viewpoints-- Catherine Komp and The NewStandard are doing full-power 6-cylinder journalism with this article, and most others at The NewStandard.

Nice look at an aspect of the educational system I was not aware of. Gives some background to the development of the more punitive treatment, to help the reader understand it. Also gives perspective of advocates, parents, and students, which is usually minimized or left-out in reports on schools, though I am left wondering what school officials' defense is.