Screen Time and Depression-Disabilities and Getting Arrested

Erin McCauley, doctoral candidate in policy analysis and management, Cornell University was the lead author of a study that found that people with disabilities are more likely to be arrested. She said people with disabilities in the study – including emotional, physical, cognitive or sensory disabilities – were nearly 44 percent more likely to be arrested by age 28. She also noted that there was a clear racial component: black men with disabilities in the study were at a particularly high risk of arrest. She believes the problem should be addressed by community members and local institutions, such as police.