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WTOP, DC - Some parents are questioning D.C. police policy after several private school students were picked up by a truancy officer and transported in a van without seat belts.
The incident happened in November, when four children who attend St. Peter's Interparish School on Capitol Hill were stopped by a Metropolitan Police Department Truancy Officer and asked why they weren't in school.
The students, two 8-year-olds and two 12-year-olds, told the officer that they attend a private Catholic school, which was closed that day, and asked the officer to call their parents.
However, the officer insisted on driving the students to their homes so she could speak with one of the parents face-to-face.
According to the parents of the children, the police van did not have enough working seat belts for all of the kids.
In a written statement, Gwen Crump, acting director of communications, tells WTOP the van did have seat belts. . .
Crump said police policy is that private school students who are out of school on a day that public schools are in session must carry a letter from the school.
"If a child is excused or suspended from school, they are required to carry a notice indicating as such in case they are stopped. The Department is only informed of the status of the D.C. Public Schools. Efforts are being made to ensure that both charter and private schools provide information on a daily basis to the Patrol Services and School Security Bureau," Crump said.
Some parents find the requirement a bit excessive.
"If your school has a parent teacher conference that day, all of the children in your school are supposed to have a letter from the school that they carry with them?" Woodhull said. "It's crazy."
The incident happened in November, when four children who attend St. Peter's Interparish School on Capitol Hill were stopped by a Metropolitan Police Department Truancy Officer and asked why they weren't in school.
The students, two 8-year-olds and two 12-year-olds, told the officer that they attend a private Catholic school, which was closed that day, and asked the officer to call their parents.
However, the officer insisted on driving the students to their homes so she could speak with one of the parents face-to-face.
According to the parents of the children, the police van did not have enough working seat belts for all of the kids.
In a written statement, Gwen Crump, acting director of communications, tells WTOP the van did have seat belts. . .
Crump said police policy is that private school students who are out of school on a day that public schools are in session must carry a letter from the school.
"If a child is excused or suspended from school, they are required to carry a notice indicating as such in case they are stopped. The Department is only informed of the status of the D.C. Public Schools. Efforts are being made to ensure that both charter and private schools provide information on a daily basis to the Patrol Services and School Security Bureau," Crump said.
Some parents find the requirement a bit excessive.
"If your school has a parent teacher conference that day, all of the children in your school are supposed to have a letter from the school that they carry with them?" Woodhull said. "It's crazy."
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3 Comments:
Totalitarian cunts. Fat donut grazer should be in the gym, not on the street harrasing kids.
Sounds eerily reminiscent of "Papers?"
Look at it from an upside gain versus downside risk point of view. The cop stops the kids. Upholds "The Law" by validating their right of free movement. Doing her job, keeping "Order". Risk? Virtually none. She would think twice about stopping a bunch of gangbangers. They might pop a cap in her big fat ass - or worse.
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