Verkkorutherford county locked up kids in almost half of cases.
Tennessee used to publish statistical reports on juvenile courts statewide.
Well, it all started with the mass arrest of 11 children in 2016.
It was over a video of a playground scuffle that was posted to youtube.
Verkkotennessee's law enforcement department report information about crime to tbi through a comprehensive system, known as the tennessee incident based.
Verkkoit turns out that incident revealed a much larger pattern of illegal arrests and detention of children in this county just south of nashville.
Verkkoon a sunny friday afternoon in rutherford county, tenn. , three police officers showed up at an elementary school.
They were there to arrest four girls, all.
Verkkooverall, 119,215 group a arrests were made in 2022, which includes offenses such as homicide, arson, assault, kidnapping, larceny, robbery,.