Dates: September 2006 through June 2008
Location: Manhattan North, 59th Street to the northern tip of Manhattan
on the east and west sides
Excerpted from SUN’s June 2008 Year End School Report: To view SUN’s complete Year End School Report
Truancy Sweeps:
Over 9,500 truants were returned to school over the past year by Manhattan North, with the help of Transit and Housing youth officers, from 59th Street to the northern tip of Manhattan on the east and west sides.
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JUVENILE STATISTICS:
TRUANCY SWEEPS
NUMBER OF STUDENTS TRUANT IN
MANHATTAN NORTH |
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9/2006- 6/2007 |
9/2007-6/2008 |
Change in |
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9012 |
9529 |
5.7% |
Manhattan North Precincts, Housing Service Areas 5 & 6, Transit Districts 1, 3 and 4, and School Safety conduct truancy initiatives, especially when they anticipate large groups of students cutting class.
Truancy Sweeps serve an array of purposes:
- They make students aware that they are being watched, which often encourages them to stay in school and pursue their studies.
- They help identify children with problems, such as drug or alcohol abuse, so the children can receive the proper services.
- They reduce the likelihood of juveniles engaging in criminal mischief, and of others from being victimized.
- They result in unanticipated arrests, including the arrest of an 18 year old with a loaded hand gun and 100 bags of marijuana in his back pack, and the arrest of two sex offenders, as reported by SUN this year.
For further details go to www.SUNnyc.org , click “SUN Communications Archive,” and view entries under Special Initiatives and Rape/Pedophilia/Other Sex Crimes, or see the following links:
http://www.plgnyc.org/viewpost.php?id=25
http://www.plgnyc.org/viewpost.php?id=42
http://www.plgnyc.org/viewpost.php?id=41
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