ASSAULT UP AT LAUSD SITES; CITY SCHOOLS BUCK NORM.Byline: David R. Baker Daily News Staff Writer While crime rates fell at most California public schools last year, incidents of battery and assaults with deadly weapons on LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) campuses rose, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a state report released Wednesday. Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. officials said they were puzzled by the jump in battery cases but said that perhaps increasingly crowded conditions at the district's schools are provoking friction among students. ``Any time you enhance the density of the population, there could be a greater likelihood of violence,'' said Assistant Superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. Dan Isaacs. Officials noted, however, that Los Angeles' battery rate remains substantially lower than the statewide average: 1.08 attacks for every 1,000 students compared with an average of three per 1,000 students in California. And the report, released by the state Department of Education, also shows the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. is making progress against vandalism and property destruction, officials said. The property crime rate in Los Angeles schools fell from 8.41 per 1,000 students during the 1995-1996 school year to 6.77 last school year. School board member Julie Korenstein, whose district is entirely in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , said the drop in vandalism may be due to tighter security measures, including metal grills across windows. ``Security systems are better, fencing's better,'' Korenstein said. ``It reduces the crime of people being able to get in and rip off our computers.'' The third annual California Safe Schools Assessment report showed most types of crime dropping at schools throughout the state, although there were exceptions. Elementary school districts saw increases in battery complaints. And while fewer guns were confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. from students, authorities found more students with knives. The statistics were reported by individual districts and contain some large discrepancies between communities. Burbank schools, for example, logged a battery rate six times higher than Los Angeles schools in the report, a finding Burbank officials said had to be a mistake. Jean Scott, a state education department consultant who worked on the report, said it was impossible to determine a margin of error for the entire report. But an examination of the drug and alcohol information, she said, found that about 32 percent of districts under-reported their problems. Los Angeles was not among those districts, she said. The report gives the LAUSD decidedly mixed grades. The number of drug and alcohol offenses inched down, from 2.27 per 1,000 students in the 1995-1996 school year to 2.16 last year. The sexual assault rate crept up, from 0.14 to 0.15. Robbery and extortion rates dropped by 15 percent, to 0.55 cases per 1,000 students. The incidence of assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. rose and amounted to one attack for every 2,500 kids compared to one for every 2,857 students the year before. School board member David Tokofsky said the district's safety committee will discuss at one point next week whether to give additional money to the district's police department, which has aging cars and bulletproof Refers to extremely stable hardware and/or software that cannot be brought down no matter what unusual conditions arise. See industrial strength. bulletproof - Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely robust; lossage-resistant; capable of correctly vests no longer under warrantee WARRANTEE. One to whom a warranty is made. Touchst. 181. . The fact that such a large, urban school district as Los Angeles has lower crime rates than much of the state, he said, is due in part to its 300-member police force. ``A lot of districts don't even have a security department, and I think that's a little naive,'' he said. CAPTION(S): chart Chart: Crimes against persons |
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