Is N.Y.'s Child Welfare System Racist? Some of Its Own Workers Say Yes.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/nyregion/nyc-acs-racism-abuse-neglect.html

Free link: https://archive.ph/fqNHg

For decades, Black families have complained that the city’s child welfare agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, is biased against them.

It turns out that many of the agency’s own employees agree, according to a racial equity audit the agency commissioned but never publicly released.

A draft report, based on a 2020 survey of more than 50 Black and Hispanic frontline caseworkers and agency managers in Brooklyn and the Bronx, along with many parents and advocates, described a “predatory system that specifically targets Black and brown parents” and subjects them to “a different level of scrutiny.”

In New York’s child welfare system, where Black families are seven times as likely as white families to be accused of child maltreatment and 13 times as likely to have their children removed, “race operates as an indicator of risk,” the report concluded.

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. Well, that's no different than thinking the rich are better than we are.

One has to love the reasoning of those in power. May that power be removed A.S.A.P..

[RobinA]

2. Damned If They Do

damned if they don't. Leave a kid with a family and he gets hurt by them, it's all child welfare's fault. Take a kid, child welfare is trying to break up families.

[jimfields33]

3. Yep! If they aren't feeding their child, take them out of the house. don't care who they are