NYPD Finding a Way to Treat Schools with Kid Cuffs

NYPD has announced that it will launch a pilot program to test out the use of velcro handcuffs to use on students in schools. Spokesman Paul Browne told the Daily News, "We would prefer never to use restraints of any kind, but in those rare instances where it may become necessary, we want a softer alternative to conventional handcuffs." A year ago, a family filed a $15 million lawsuit against the city after 5-year Dennis Rivera was (steel) handcuffed to a chair after allegedly attacking a teacher at PS 81 in Ridgewood, Queens. PS 81 is one of the 22 schools that will be included in the pilot program. Rivera's father said of the program, "They could be made of teddy bear material, but they still would be handcuffs. It is still police tactics on children who have committed no crime." The police say that the softer cuffs would only be used in rare cases where a student (age 15 or younger) needs to be restrained to protect himself or herself, or other children.

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By Billy Parker in News on February 14, 2009 12:15 PM

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Snoopy

Cops are there to protect the teachers from being knifed or shot.

Brainwash

WTF are cops doing in the elementary schools?!

aspiringrapper

If the cops are on the scene, they're there because these little animals are causing trouble. Pull out the tasers, guns & real handcuffs & have at them. If they can't behave themselves & do their homework, take them out & do the future world a favor. They're not getting the discipline they should be at home, so it better come from somewhere.

Think2wice

Isn't this what zip ties are for.

babyhitler

public school is jail for children.

NannyState

They're building Nerf prisons as we speak...

Felix Hoenikker

Sister Mary Elephant and her ruler don't need handcuffs.

Snoopy

Then send them to art school.

chuzzlewit

har!

sweetpanties

maybe they're autistic

Snoopy

Have they tried low power tasers? If the kid is out of control throw them in a cell and call their parents to come and pick them up. Or put them on a bus to hell.

Billiamsburg

Really? Attacking a teacher isn't a crime? These parents should be cuffed to their children until they can raise them properly. Maybe that would also prevent them from fornicating with everything that moves and creating more spawn they can't raise.