Philadelphia school district data indicates the annual number of school-based arrests in the city has declined by 91% since 2013. Largely responsible is the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program, which was instituted in 2014 by then-Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel, according to researchers from Drexel University. Through the program, when officers are called to a school, they cannot arrest the student involved if that student has no pending court case or a history of adjudication; instead, school personnel decide how to respond to the student's behavior.
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For individuals convicted of a summary offense, such as retail theft, who have had no subsequent arrests for a designated number of years, expungement the erasure of a formal arrest or conviction record may be a path to a fresh start.
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