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NEWS > U.S.A. > NYPD CRACKING DOWN ON VIOLENT FIRST GRADERS
NYPD CRACKING DOWN ON VIOLENT FIRST GRADERS
April 30 2011
New York City, NY – Despite the very firm beliefs of many people, there is no hard and fast rule behind what makes a person capable of committing violent acts. Often issues like childhood abuse or prolonged exposure to violent media are cited as 
concrete reasons for violence in adulthood, but no serious studies has ever linked those things. Those perceptions have never been backed up by any scientific work, relegating them to myth and perhaps even wishful thinking, the notion that if we rid childhood of dark experiences we will wipe away adult violence.
Still, such ideas are readily accepted with little argument in many parts of society, leeching their way into not only polite society but also into the legal constructs that maintain our society. In recent years stories of children being suspended from school brings butter knives to school or throwing spit balls in class have become common, so common in fact that such actions are more and more becoming associated with real world harm. Never ones to take things lying down, those events have prompted the NYPD to start taking much more aggressive actions against violations from young students, as evidenced by a recent Easter crackdown which landed one seven year-old in jail, and a dozen others with very stern warnings and no desserts at lunchtime.
“This was an unfortunate incident, one that we never like to see happen, but one that we unfortunately have to deal with one a more regular basis of late. This incident, which apparently involved a student not having an Easter art project turn out the way 
he had hoped, quickly became violent and we were called to the school, where we took the offender into custody,” said a spokesperson for the NYPD. “The individual involved was taken away for psychiatric evaluation and we will be following up from there. As for the other students involved, they all received a stern warning and we believe that they have learned their lesson. Should that not turn out to be the case however, we are ready to respond with whatever force is required.”
Joseph Anderson, 7, was released into his mother’s custody following his evaluation.
“It was terrifying, it wasn’t like anything I’ve ever experienced before and I’ve been teaching for almost three years. The whole class was in chaos, yelling and screaming and even biting. It was like anarchy, like first grade in Hell or something,” said one teacher who witnessed the event. “It wasn’t only the child directly involved, he got all the other children into his scheme. They were yelling and screaming and egging him on. Frankly I think they all should have been taken into custody. There were only a few kids who weren’t involved. They were the good kids. You can always tell them apart, they didn’t do any biting. That’s always a good thing.”
Another student, apparently suffering some long-lasting effects from the incident, was later taken into custody after an incident at home.
“Unfortunately we are seeing more and more of these types of incidents across the country. Whether it’s a product of more aggressive students or simply more aggressive policing is something that can be debated, but it’s becoming clear that these types of incidents are something that no one wants, no matter the underlying cause,” said Scrape TV Crime analyst Willard Weston. “There are probably a number of factors at play including the fact that children seem to be maturing faster than ever, but analysis may not lead to answers. However these types of crackdowns may not help either, no matter how aggressive they become. That will likely only lead to a generation of kids who know what life is like on the inside, and that doesn’t help anyone.”
The NYPD recently placed a large order of small handcuffs.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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