OVERALL RATE DIPS 4% IN YEARLY COMPARISON : DRUG, ALCOHOL ABUSE RISE, DOCUMENT INDICATES.Byline: Sharline Chiang Daily News Staff Writer Crime on and around 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. campuses declined slightly the first part of the 1996-97 school year compared to the same period a year ago, but drug and alcohol use among students continues to rise, 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 school police report released Monday. While overall crime dropped about 4 percent, violent crimes and threats against students and faculty increased by 1.8 percent, the report said. The overall drop in crime is particularly notable considering the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified School District's enrollment grew by an unprecedented 18,000 students, said Dan Isaacs, 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. of school operations. L.A. Unified, the nation's second-largest school district, has 663 campuses, 668,000 students and 60,000 employees. ``We strongly believe that we can say, and with agreement from law enforcement, that school campuses are the safest place for our students and staff to be,'' Isaacs said during a news conference Monday at the the district's downtown headquarters. Isaacs said increased community policing, random weapons checks, a voluntary student uniform policy and individual school safety plans have contributed to an overall five-year gradual drop in crime. The report was prepared for the California Safe School Assessment program, which requires school districts to file crime statistics twice yearly. During the news conference, Isaacs told reporters that crime against individuals had dropped 4 percent, but the district's own statistics showed a slight increase. District officials later said that Isaacs misspoke. Burglary, vandalism and other acts against school property, which dropped about 8 percent, accounted for 58 percent of crimes handled by school police last semester se·mes·ter n. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year. [German, from Latin (cursus) s . Last school year, vandalism and thieves cost the school district $6.3 million, of which only 1 percent was recouped in restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the . Another area of concern, LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) Police Chief Wesley Mitchell said, is the rise in drug use among students - mainly marijuana, reflecting a national trend. ``It's probably the leading crime factor among young people,'' Mitchell said. The number of students caught bringing guns to school fell from 42 to 25, continuing a five-year decline, but the number of kids caught with knives increased from 107 to 126. Mitchell said the drop in the number of students bringing guns to school can be credited to random, unannounced weapons checks conducted daily with metal-detection wands at all of the city's high schools and middle schools, and at some elementary campuses. CAPTION(S): chart CHART: 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. CRIME COMPARISON REPORT |
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