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November 2nd, 2015 
Awake Goy To get a sense of the national landscape, the Center analyzed national data collected from schools by the U.S. Department of Education for the 2011-12 school year. South Carolina’s rate of student “referrals to law enforcement”—this could include arrests—was not above the national state-by-state average. The state overall came in at 5 per 1,000, compared to about 6 per 1,000 nationally.
However, the state’s numbers did show a pattern of disproportionate referrals of black students—students like the girl in the South Carolina video. Black students represented almost 36 percent of the state’s public school student body, but they were 50 percent of all students referred to law enforcement. Spring Valley High School, where the video was shot, reported no arrests or referrals that year. Schools are currently sending in data to the federal education department for an updated collection that won’t be released until next year, most likely.
The video of the girl getting manhandled and arrested in Columbia, S.C. has touched a nerve. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott has reportedly asked the FBI to investigate the officer’s conduct.
When it comes to how police conduct themselves schools—and what their purpose is—schools are governed by a patchwork of laws and policies that differ state by state, district by district, sometimes school by school. Virginia, for one, has now launched a statewide effort to retrain school police. The 2011 data the Center analyzed showed that statewide Virginia’s rate of referring students to law enforcement was 16 per 1,000, the highest in the country.
Source Article from https://www.popularresistance.org/shocking-south-carolina-video-no-isolated-case/
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