Police called to D.C. schools hundreds of times
THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
From death threats to sexual assaults, nearly 400 incidents brought D.C. police into schools -- mostly D.C. Public Schools -- in the 2009-2010 school year.
Ballou Senior High School and Wilson Senior High School tied for the most crime reports, with 22 police write-ups each between July 2009 and April 2010, according to Metropolitan Police Department records first obtained by TBD.com.
Of roughly 370 incidents, about 70 percent occurred in D.C. Public Schools. The rest were split among public charter schools, which serve 40 percent of the city's public school students, and private campuses.
More than 60 incidents involved theft, along with 21 more serious burglaries and 20 cases of destruction of property valued under $200. Police most frequently intervened over simple assaults -- 137 of the cases.
Some of the reports detailed disturbances far beyond the typical schoolyard scuffle.
Among Ballou's 22 police reports, three described fires set to the school, and one a student
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