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I see toxic policing. Again, I believe the author should mention toxicity in the design statement.

school to prison pipeline

The image communicates a great deal about how the LASPD is constructing force and policing as a paternalistic type of care of children. It suggests that, it is for the own good of the ethnic minority school children population that arrests are made. However, the shocking statistic in the image below the LASPD is a counterargument to underlying argument of the LASPD visual rhetoric. The statistical image below counters the rhetoric of LASPD’s force for the sake of ‘protection.'

Again, I would add more image description for the sake of accessibility and thick description.

My eye first focuses on the “One in four” title. It moves down to the children walking across the screen and I perceive that one of them is red. At this point, I perceive the police force that I have noticed above the “One in 4” image as protective of the children. My eye moves up to focus in on the “protecting the children” image. My brain automatically assumes that these police officers are the protective force of the children below. However, I then perceive what the ‘one in four’ caption refers to.

Disturbing

As a mom of elementary and middle school children

I think Janelle created this image since it presents two contrasting ideas through a conspicuous illustration. While the banner in the top shows LA school police’s reassuring phrase “Protecting the Children, Our Future,” the illustration at the bottom ironically highlights a sticking figure (numerical value) that one in four arrests made by LASPD are of elementary and middle school students. These two contrasting data cause the audience to infer who the vulnerable subjects are.