The bold black lettering stood out emphatically on freshly pressed white T-shirts.
One read, “Only 28 percent of youth had their parents present while being questioned by police.”
“Only 42 percent of the youth had their parents notified immediately after arrest,” read another.
The T-shirts were a concrete way to dramatize a survey about some of the most pressing juvenile justice issues in the Bronx. Unusually, young adults from the community had been trained inparticipatory action research, which is created for, about and by affected community members.
Wearing the shirts, they eagerly shared their personal experiences with about 100 neighborhood residents and some experts at a February event.
[For more of this story, written by Karen Savage, go to http://jjie.org/bronx-youth-de...rhood-report/231094/]
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