These numbers come from an annual report called Indicators of School Crime and Safety, which Congress demanded after the 1997 “Jonesboro massacre” first brought the issue of school shootings to national prominence. Indicators of School Crime and Safety also tracks what it calls “serious violent crime”—meaning rape, sexual assault, robbery, and assault with a weapon. In 1994, the rate of such crimes in schools was 13 per 1,000 students. That number is a bit misleading, of course, because it is the average across all American schools, and there are big differences between poor, inner-city schools and those in wealthy suburbs or rural regions. Regardless, that rate didn’t last. It fell steadily through the 1990s and by 2004 it was 4 per 1,000 students—less than one-third the level of a decade earlier. In 1993, 12 percent of kids told surveyors they had carried a weapon of some kind onto school property within the last thirty days; a decade later, that had fallen to 6 percent.
Research on safety and schools

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