It seems like whenever this happens, the “offender” is not some gangbanger or someone with a skeevy violent past.
This young man has expressed a desire to serve in public life, I read that in another thread about him, and he’s concerned that a felony rap will halt that career. Others caught in this have been Eagle Scouts.
Here’s where I go out on a limb- what if the left is using its “get out the vote” and fundraising databases (Google’s Civitas comes to mind) to do a little predictive modeling and see which kids might someday run for office. They then help the careers of lefties and squash the career of conservatives, by using the “bullying” laws and “zero tolerance” policies. You don’t even need a predictive computer model, a lefty principal and school board can do it on their own, but the Big Data tools are there.
Odd that the kids taken down in this way are never president of a GSA or work for a lefty advocacy group.
Good theory you have there — preemptive data mining on future ‘troublemakers.”