Pittsburgh schools police Chief Robert Fazden remembers a fight more than 10 years ago at Peabody High School, involving hundreds of students in the parking lot.
The size of the fight was daunting enough, but even more surprising to Fazden was that girls fought other girls alongside the boys -- and just as violently.
"They pull hair, scratch, and girl fights are very, very hard to break up," Fazden said. "You don't want to pull them apart and hurt them, but you don't want them to kill each other, either. Girls can be just as violent, or more violent, than the boys. Girls fighting has always been an issue for us. We see it every day."
According to national statistics, girls today are more violent than they were just five years ago. Arrests of girls under age 18 nationwide for crimes including aggravated and simple assaults are up 15 percent from 2001 to 2005. Girls account for about a quarter of total assaults committed by juveniles, compared with less than 10 percent in 1980.
Source
No comments:
Post a Comment