“Even after a judge required ACS to reunite Ms. Rivers with her baby, ACS continued to subject Ms. Rivers to needless court proceedings and a litany of conditions that interfered with her parenting of TW for months, while the unlawful removal of her baby was ratified by senior ACS leadership,” the complaint reads. “This was not because ACS was trying to protect TW; this was because Ms. Rivers is Black.”
You must be a teacher — you’re good at this. Your third paragraph is an eye-opener, and makes all this make somewhat more sense to me. Someone who’s toking in a hospital bed might be someone who tends to toke to excess.
Even second-hand smoke — my instant response is to say that’s nuts, because I’m old and grew up with kids who must’ve had black lung by junior high school, just from their parents’ second hand smoke. But it’s a different era, and there’s no doubt that it’s harmful to kids.
Heh, not a teacher, I’ve just been in a career for a long time that primarily requires explaining data to people. I spent enough years as a data analyst to know how bad policing in the US is, the numbers are pretty damn clear. It definitely sounds like NY CPS has its issues but I’ve seen a lot of data around what other state CPS organizations do and they get a lot of crap to do an insanely difficult job.