Crime in D.C. schools
Last April, TBD reporter Sarah Larimer filed a Freedom of Information Act request to D.C. police for all records of incident reports at public and private schools in the District going back to 2009. This past August, after Larimer took a job at Grantland.com, the documents started to roll in. The police sent TBD a document listing every incident (PDF) as well as hundreds of individual incident reports. They’re presented here with all original spelling intact and only the names of suspects and victims redacted in the rare cases that they’ve been left in. Some of the reports are heartbreaking, some are bizarre, and more than you’d think involve weaponized tape dispensers. There are lots of banal incidents, and a couple that should probably be feature stories (like this one). You can download the original spreadsheet we made here or sort these data yourself in the table below.
–Data wrangling by Andrew Beaujon, Caroline Smith, and Ryan O'Malley.
| Event Date sort | Complaint No. sort | Police District sort | School sort | Event Type sort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/22/2010 | 10009783 | 5D | Brookland Education Center | Simple Assault |
| Weapons: Hands/Feet/Teeth12 - Hands Property: None Specified | Description: C-1 STATES W-1 ASKED HIM TO GO INTO A RESTROOM SO HE COULD TALK TO HIM ABOUT SOMETHING. S-1 WAS ALREADY IN THE RESTROOM. S-1 ASKED C-1 ABOUT AN INCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED OT S-1'S BROTHER THE PREVIOUS DAY. S-1 THEN STRUCK C-1 WITH A CLOSED FIST SEVERAL TIMES CAUSING APPARENT MINOR INJURIES TO C-'S FACE. C-1 ALSO BELIEVES THAT HE MAY HAVE LOST CONSCIENCENESS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. S-1 FLED THE SCENE IN AN UNKNOWN DIRECTION. Permanent link | |||