Children experience PTSD after being arrested | USA TODAY

Kids as young as 6 years old have been arrested for throwing a tantrum at school. Parents discuss the traumatic impact it's had on their children.

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A USA TODAY analysis of federal crime reports identified more than 2,600 arrests in schools involving kids ages 5 to 9 between 2000 and 2019.The newspaper culled 28 million arrest records from more than 8,000 law enforcement agencies that participated in the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System over two decades.

Among agencies consistently contributing data to the FBI, arrests dropped from about 171 a year in 2000-2009 to 94 a year in the following decade. The decline may have been driven in part by the growing body of research that shows harsh punishments can do more harm than good and are often applied unfairly to Black children and those with disabilities.

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18 comments

  1. My children were never the same after being harassed by the police. Because a neighbor that didn’t like us, they had a family member that was a cop. It has skewed their view of law enforcement forever.

  2. The state that has those types of regulations to have children arrested for being a child throwing tantrums should be sued by the parent’s worldwide.

  3. Remember God loves you!!😊♥️
    John 3:16
    For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
    Please turn your life around and repent🙏
    The clock is ticking…

  4. The things I’ve been seeing kids do are beyond evil ,Growing up we never had school shootings,bullies like we do today ,kids killing animals ,torturing them ,so Some these kids DESERVE IT especially the animal abusers and bullies , Something very wrong with kids today ,some these kids need be locked up

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