As Foreclosure Crisis Worsens, State May Offer More Forums to Help Homeowners
December 18, 2007
Cross posted from the Michigan Messenger
The forum was hosted by state Attorney General Mike Cox and the banks and lenders present represented 98 percent of the
Detroit Public Schools and the need for Restorative Justice
September 16, 2007
Cross posted from Michigan Messenger:
On August 31, 2007 Detroit Public Schools announced they would be setting up mini-police stations within certain high schools in their attempt to ebb crime in and around schools.
Additionally, the Detroit News reports, “This year is historic because thousands of high school students are being forced to transfer to new schools because four high schools largely serving students from the city’s west side — Redford, Mackenzie, Murray-Wright and Detroit Northern — closed at the end of the last school year.”
When I was in high school, the extent to which school could feel like a precinct was the use of metal detectors. Between the violence stemming from guns and knives especially, the metal detectors were draconian, but I could see how others could see the logic. The police mini-stations are logical but they create an extremely stigmatizing environment for students. It is time for a wholesale revision of how justice is administered to people, school-age in particular.
