City schools also were twice as likely to
report serious violent crime compared with rural and schools in towns; however, there was not much difference in the amount of serious crimes in schools located in urban fringe areas, according to the NCES Annual Report on School Safety — 1998.
Not exact matches
The Los Angeles Police Department fudged
violent crime stats under the watch of Bill Bratton — cooking the books to keep down the number of
serious assaults, a
report said...
10 percent
reported one or more
serious violent crimes, such as physical attacks, fights with a weapon, rape or sexual battery, suicide, or robbery.
Among schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more, one - third
reported at least one
serious violent crime, compared with less than one - tenth of schools with fewer than 1,000 students.
According to a National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) statistics survey, Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools: 1996 - 97, one out of ten schools
reported incidents at school of
serious violent crimes, such as rape or sexual battery, suicide, physical attacks or fights with weapons, or robbery.
Remember when reading these statistics that 43 % of public schools
reported no
crimes and 90 % had no
serious violent crimes.
America's Children 1999 shows that youth are less likely to smoke, die and or be victimized by
crime, but they have made fewer gains in areas that predict their economic futures... Among the
report's most positive results is a 40 percent drop in
serious violent crime involving juvenile offenders since 1993.»