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Commissioner’s Annual Report to the Education
Committees of the Senate and General Assembly
on Violence, Vandalism and Substance Abuse
in New Jersey Public Schools
July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008
Based on the Electronic Violence
and Vandalism Reporting System (EVVRS)
Lucille E. Davy
Commissioner
Barbara Gantwerk
Assistant Commissioner
Susan B. Martz, Director
Office of Educational Support Services
New Jersey Department of Education
100 River View Plaza, P.O. Box 500
Trenton, NJ 08625-0500
September 2009
Overall Total and Totals for Major Reporting Categories
Three-Year Trends in Types of Incidents Reported (Table 1)
National and New Jersey Trends in School Crime
Disciplinary Action Taken and Program Provided
Departmental Review of District Records
Comprehensive Approach to Prevention
Programs to Support Student Development (N.J.A.C. 6A:16)
School Administrator Procedures: Responding to Critical Incidents
New Jersey Student Health Survey (NJSHS)
Electronic Violence and Vandalism Reporting System (EVVRS)
School Security Incident Reports (SSIRs)
Title IV-A Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) Performance Report
Prevention and Intervention Programs and Strategies
Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) Program
Core Curriculum Content Standards (CCCS)
Intervention and Referral Services (I&RS) Initiatives
Character Education Initiatives
Truancy Reduction Pilot Project
Title IV-A and Unsafe School Choice Option Policy Training and Technical Assistance Project
21st Century Community Learning Centers Programs
New Jersey School-Age Care Coalition
Collaboration and Technical Support
Governor’s Strategy for Safe Streets and Neighborhoods
Collaboration with Law Enforcement
Collaboration with the New Jersey School Security Task Force
Collaboration with Human Services Agencies and Student Support Staff
Appendix A: Public School Safety Law
Appendix B: Data Collection Form
Appendix D: District Totals by County
Appendix E: Substance and Weapons Detail, 2005-06 - 2007-08
In 1982, in response to the problem of violence and vandalism in the New Jersey schools, the State Legislature passed the Public School Safety Law (N.J.S.A. 18A:17-48).
The Commissioner of Education shall each year submit a report to the Education Committees of the Senate and General Assembly detailing the extent of violence and vandalism in the public schools and making recommendations to alleviate the problem (see Appendix A).
The Commissioner’s annual report provides the Legislature with information reported by school districts concerning incidents of serious student misconduct grouped into the following four major reporting categories: violence, vandalism, weapons, and substance abuse. An analysis of trends yields indications of progress and of ongoing concern, and provides guidance to districts, other agencies, and the department as they endeavor to focus resources on areas of need. In the Programmatic Response section of this report, the department notifies the Legislature and the public of the actions taken by the State Board of Education and the Department of Education to address the problems evident in the data.
The Findings section summarizes the data reported by districts over the Electronic Violence and Vandalism Reporting System (EVVRS). Districts are required to report incidents, as defined in the EVVRS, if they occur on school grounds during school hours, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored event, using the Violence, Vandalism, and Substance Abuse (VV-SA) Incident Reporting Form in Appendix B. The reporting of this year’s findings is intended to be read in electronic format; the reader can link to figures that depict the findings described in the report. Paper copies of the figures may be found in Appendix C of the print version of this document. More detailed findings, i.e., district and school summary data, may be accessed at http://www.state.nj.us/education/schools/vandv/.
Overall Total and Totals for Major Reporting Categories
The total number of incidents reported by districts decreased five percent, a decline of 967 incidents from 18,633 in 2006-07 to 17,666 in 2007-08 (see Appendix D). The following changes are noted in the number of incidents reported in the four major reporting categories over the same period: violence declined five percent, vandalism declined 11 percent, weapons declined 14 percent, and substance abuse increased four percent. The decline in reported incidents of vandalism continues a long-term trend and that of incidents involving weapons continues a trend that began in 2004-05 (see Figure 1).
When reporting an incident, districts specify the type of incident within the major category. In 2007-08:
Three-Year Trends in Types of Incidents Reported (Table 1)
From 2005-06 through 2007-08, most of the types of incidents constituting the four major categories changed little. Table 1 below, however, shows that in three of the four categories, some incident types exhibited a downward trend, with a few showing increases:
The definition of harassment intimidation and bullying (HIB) was changed to include threat for reporting in the 2007-2008 school year. As a result, threat was dropped as a separate offense, and the offense of harassment, intimidation and bullying was changed to harassment, intimidation, bullying, threat (HIBT). The HIBT definition is provided below and includes physical, as well as non-physical acts:
Any gesture, written, verbal, or physical act, or electronic or wireless communication that:
The HIB definition was changed for the following reasons: 1) Districts frequently confused the offenses of threats and terroristic threats. This confusion contributed, in part, to problems in reporting of terroristic threats due to perceptions of the term “terrorist.” 2) It is difficult to distinguish threats from acts of HIB, since key criteria for HIB include behavior that alarms or places a student in fear or harm to his or her person or fear of damage to his or her property, which is the intended effect of a threat. Additionally, there is a criminal definition of terroristic threat, but there is no criminal definition for threat, adding to the lack of clarity between the two acts and supporting the inclusion of threats to acts of HIB.
Table 1: All Incidents by Type |
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2005-06 |
2006-07 |
2007-08 |
Three-Year Change |
Incident Type |
# of Incidents |
# of Incidents |
# of Incidents |
# of Incidents |
Violence |
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|
Simple Assault |
3,390 |
3,401 |
3,302 |
-88 |
Aggravated Assault |
235 |
250 |
219 |
-16 |
Fight |
4,464 |
4,447 |
4,234 |
-230 |
Gang Fight |
63 |
81 |
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|
Robbery/Extortion |
63 |
70 |
53 |
-10 |
Sex Offense |
161 |
205 |
170 |
9 |
Threat* |
1,430 |
1,588 |
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|
Terroristic Threat** |
195 |
314 |
265 |
70 |
Harassment/ Intimidation/Bullying* |
1,409 |
1,458 |
2,976 |
205 |
Vandalism |
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|
|
Arson |
111 |
115 |
76 |
-35 |
Bomb Threat1 |
136 |
113 |
144 |
8 |
Burglary |
113 |
88 |
80 |
-33 |
Damage to Property |
1,787 |
1,511 |
1,410 |
-377 |
Fireworks |
90 |
59 |
43 |
-47 |
Theft |
1,584 |
1,457 |
1,260 |
-324 |
Trespassing |
178 |
124 |
109 |
-69 |
Weapons |
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Firearm2 |
12 |
11 |
9 |
-3 |
Other Weapon |
1,317 |
1,269 |
1,155 |
-162 |
Bomb Offense3 |
1 |
7 |
1 |
0 |
Substances |
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Use |
1,999 |
2,003 |
2,102 |
103 |
Possession |
723 |
719 |
717 |
-6 |
Distribution |
71 |
86 |
91 |
20 |
1 Includes two fake bombs in 2005-06 and one in 2006-07 and two in 2007-08. |
The increase of 205 incidents of HIBT reported in Table 1 and Figure 5 represents a seven percent increase in the total number of HIBT incidents over the three years.1 Over the past two years, the number of schools, reporting HIBT incidents has remained the same (see Figure 6). In 2007-08, more students in grades 7-8 and 9-10 than students in other grades committed acts of HIBT (see Figure 7).
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In producing the 2005-06 and 2006-07 data for this comparison, reports of threats were combined with reports of Harassment, Intimidation, Bullying (HIB); an incident that included both a threat and an HIB incident was counted only once as an incident of HIBT.
When limiting the analysis to incidents of violence where both the offender and the victim are students, the number of incidents of each type of violence has remained relatively stable over the three-year period, 2005-06 through 2007-08. The same consistency can be seen generally in the percentage of those incidents that occurred in the classroom (see Table 2).
Table 2: Incidents of Violence where Offender and Victims were Students*
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2005-06 |
2006-07 |
2007-08 |
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Incidents |
% in Class |
Incidents |
% in Class |
Incidents |
% in Class |
Types of Violence |
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Simple Assault |
2,784 |
27% |
2,795 |
25% |
2,731 |
25% |
Aggravated Assault |
142 |
23% |
114 |
20% |
103 |
12% |
Fight |
4,269 |
22% |
4,296 |
21% |
4,135 |
20% |
Robbery/Extortion |
39 |
8% |
52 |
14% |
36 |
11% |
Sex Offense |
141 |
38% |
174 |
29% |
156 |
32% |
HIBT** |
1,855 |
40% |
1,933 |
41% |
2,084 |
40% |
Criminal Threat** |
116 |
47% |
175 |
44% |
145 |
50% |
Total Violence |
9,282 |
28% |
9,449 |
27% |
9,212 |
27% |
* Includes approximately one hundred cases each year where victim was a non-student, i.e., a community member.
** Harassment, Intimidation, Bullying, Threat. Threat was added to Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying in 2007-08; in prior years threat incidents were reported in their own category. Criminal Threat was labeled Terroristic Threat in 2005-06 and 2006-07.
National and New Jersey Trends in School Crime
The year-to-year consistency evident in the violence and vandalism data reported by New Jersey public schools can also be seen in national trends in the data drawn from a variety of sources, including surveys of students, teachers, and principals by the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) and reported in Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2008, (NCES 2009-022/NCJ 226343). Data collected by USDOE covers the number of incidents of violence as reported by school principals, including serious violence and theft and perceptions of students of school safety (see Table 3).
The data reported to NJDOE on the EVVRS are incident data, whereas USDOE data are survey data about incidents, and thus not strictly comparable. The purpose of this comparison is to provide a context for the trends observed in recent years in EVVRS data, specifically, incidents of theft and violence. The New Jersey data presented includes New Jersey’s totals reported in prior Commissioner Reports to the Legislature (see Table 4). The national data are reported from 2001 through 2007.
National Data on Selected Measure of School Crime
Table 3: Student Self-Reports of School Crime, 2001-2005
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2000-01 |
2001-02 |
2002-03 |
2003-04 |
2004-05 |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
% Change |
Rate of Incidents per 1,000 Students, Ages 12-18 |
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Theft |
45 |
40 |
45 |
33 |
33 |
34 |
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-24% |
Violence |
28 |
24 |
28 |
22 |
24 |
29 |
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4% |
% Students Reporting Victimization, Age 12-18 |
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Theft |
4.2% |
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4.0% |
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3.1% |
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3.0% |
-29% |
Violence |
1.8% |
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1.3% |
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1.2% |
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1.6% |
-11% |
% Students in Grades 9-12 Reporting Avoiding Activities or One or More Places in School because of fear of harm |
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Total |
6.1% |
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5.0% |
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5.5% |
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7.2% |
18% |
% Students in Grades 9-12 who felt threatened or were injured with a weapon |
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Total |
8.9% |
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9.2% |
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7.9% |
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7.8% |
-12% |
New Jersey Trend Data Reported
Table 4: Trends in Incident Totals for Theft and Violence, 2001-2008, EVVRS
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Percent |
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2000-01 |
2001-02 |
2002-03 |
2003-04 |
2004-05 |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
2007-08 |
2001-2005 |
2001-2008 |
Theft |
1,784 |
1,449 |
1,594 |
1,489 |
1,387 |
1,584 |
1,457 |
1,260 |
-22% |
-29% |
Violence |
15,970 |
14,677 |
13,915 |
12,429 |
10,953 |
11,166 |
11,534 |
10,998 |
-31% |
-31% |
Questions on physical violence and weapons possession are asked on the New Jersey Student Health Survey (NJSHS), a questionnaire completed by a sample of New Jersey public high school students every two years. A pattern of decline from 2001 through 2005 can be seen for some measures on the survey, followed by a leveling off or increase two years later in the 2007 survey, the same pattern seen in the national data above (see Table 5).
Table 5: Physical Violence and Weapons Possession, New Jersey
Student Health Survey
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2001 |
2005 |
2007 |
Involved in Physical Fight, Past 12 Months |
35% |
31% |
31% |
Carried a Weapon, Past 30 Days |
13% |
11% |
11% |
Involved in Physical Fight on School Property, Past 12 Months |
13% |
10% |
10% |
Carried a Weapon on School Property, Past 30 Days |
7% |
3% |
4% |
Missed School Day because Felt Unsafe |
9% |
4% |
6% |
Comparison
The figures in the “Percent Change” column in Table 3 provide a context for the changes observed in New Jersey data over the same time period, 2001-2008, in Table 4 and from 2001 through 2007 in Table 5. The decline in the two rates of self-reported student victimization for theft in the national data (Table 3) parallels the decline in incidents of theft reported over the EVVRS (Table 4). The two national rates for violence are mixed, as are the two measures of school safety as measured by reports of students in grades 9-12 (2001-2005, Table 4). The New Jersey data show a steeper decline over the five-year period of incidents, the percent change over the eight-year period (2001-2008), however, shows a leveling off of the decline in violence incidents. This leveling off pattern is also seen in the results of the survey of New Jersey high school students (Table 5). In sum, the declines observed in the New Jersey theft data can, to some measure, also be seen in declines in the national data, although it is difficult to reach a conclusion when comparing national and New Jersey data related to violence. The New Jersey data on incidents of violence have leveled off over the past two years (2005 to 2007), while the national data do not exhibit a discernable trend across the four measures related to violence.
Location
As in previous years, three incidents in ten (30 percent) occurred in the classroom. In fact, the distribution of the data describing incident location has remained stable over the last four reporting years (see Figure 8). The data were analyzed to determine if violence and weapons incidents tended to occur in the same locations as incidents of vandalism. The distribution of incidents is similar for the two groups of incidents; however, more incidents of violence and weapons (see Figure 9) occur in school corridors (24 percent vs. 11 percent for vandalism) and more vandalism (see Figure 10) occurs in other locations inside the school (30 percent vs. 13 percent).
The preponderance of incidents occurring in the classroom involve violence (see Figure 11); the most frequently occurring type of violence in the classroom is HIBT, followed by assault and fight (see Figure 12).
Gang-Related Incidents
Prior to 2007-08, the EVVRS collected data on gang fights. In this reporting year, districts reported if an incident, regardless of the category, was related to gang membership. Of the 51, gang-related incidents reported, seven in ten (71 percent) were incidents of violence (see Figure 13).
Police Notification
Police were notified in nearly two incidents in five (38 percent); a complaint was filed with or by the police in nearly 3,500 cases (20 percent) (see Figure 14).
Disciplinary Action Taken and Program Provided
More than nine disciplinary actions in ten (93 percent) were short-term suspensions, defined as one to nine days (see Figure 15). Nearly half of all suspensions were from two to four days (see Figure 16). Home instruction was the most frequent program provided to the recipient of the disciplinary action (see Figure 17).
Offenders
Regardingall incidents across the four major reporting categories, general education students were the most frequent offenders. Relative to their numbers in the student population (17 percent); however, students with disabilities constituted a greater proportion of offenders. Offender Unknown is recorded by districts in the case of vandalism (e.g., arson, damage to property) where the perpetrator is not identified. (see Figure 18.)
Victims
General education students were the victims in the majority of cases. School personnel were the victims in slightly more cases than are students with disabilities (see Figure 19). Staff, i.e., school personnel, were the victim of HIBT more than any other type of incident (see Figure 20). The percentage of student victims of violence who were male did not change over the past three years (66 percent in 2005-06, 65 percent in 2006-07 and 2007-08).
In 2006-07, the total number of incidents reported statewide declined slightly from the previous year, decreasing by 967 incidents or five percent. Incidents of violence (five percent), vandalism (11 percent) and weapons (four percent) accounted for this decrease. Over the three-year period from 2005-06 through 2007-08, the types of incident that declined the most were fight (violence), property damage and theft (vandalism), and weapons other than firearms. Over the three-year period, the number of incidents of HIBT increased slightly, but from 2006-07 to 2007-08, the number of schools reporting HIBT incidents did not change.
The pattern of location in which incidents occurred did not change in 2007-08 with 30 percent of all incidents occurring in the classroom, the preponderance of those involving violence. When students were both offenders and victims, the percentage of incidents of violence occurring in the classroom did not change over three years (28 percent in 2005-06, and 27 percent in 2006-07 and 2007-08).
A significant proportion of the victims of offenses continued to be school personnel, who were victims of HIBT offenses more than any other type. An analysis of victim data by gender was conducted for incidents where the offender and victim were both students. Of all student victims, two victims in three were male students.
Overall, the EVVRS data are characterized by their stability; there were no major shifts in the 2007-08 in the data, in the number of incidents, in their attributes, e.g., location, or in the number or distribution of offender and victim types.
Departmental Review of District Records
In 2005-06, the department surveyed 19 school districts that either reported a decline of at least 100 incidents of violence over a three-year period (between 2002-03 and 2004-05) or reported at least 50 incidents of violence in 2002-03 and a decline of at least 50 percent over the same period. These districts were asked to confirm and verify figures submitted in 2004-05 and to explain the reasons for the decline.
All 19 school districts responded to the confirmation request. The majority attributed the decline to a multiplicity of responses to the problem rather than one action or program. These responses included the following: alignment of local reporting standards with criteria in incident definitions; administrative actions both to reduce the level of violence in schools and to ensure the accurate reporting of incidents; enhanced linkages and communication with the community; the implementation of new curricula, non-curricular programs and additional student support services; and changes in the student population.
As reported last year, the department developed a protocol to verify the local standards for reporting that entailed an on-site review of documents such as suspension forms used for recording incidents of misconduct for which a school imposed a consequence. The selection of districts to monitor is based upon multiple criteria as follows: a significant three-year decline in incidents reported; a gap between the expected and actual number of incidents reported (based on a statistical analysis of three years of EVVRS data); observations made by teams carrying out site visits as part of the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability System (QSAC) and other reviews; and written complaints filed with the department alleging noncompliance with regulations or statutes. During the 2007-08 school year, the department continued to use the protocol to conduct records reviews and interviews in six schools in four of these 19 districts (including one charter school). Visits to an additional six schools in four districts were conducted in the spring of 2008-09. The department plans to integrate aspects of the EVVRS protocol into QSAC monitoring during the 2009-10 school year.
Comprehensive Approach to Prevention
Violence, as is the case with many community problems, can become manifest in schools. The NJDOE and local school staff persistently strive to make school environments safe, secure, and optimal settings for promoting student learning and growth. The most effective strategies for the prevention of school violence and related at-risk student behavior involve continuous vigilance and proactive, coordinated efforts among all facets of the community for the maintenance of supportive and disciplined school environments.
State and local interagency collaborations have enhanced educators’ capacities to cultivate positive learning conditions and to address complex student problems. A growing recognition among representatives from state and local partner agencies regarding the importance of data-driven decision-making and the use of research-based practices has contributed to more focused and functional program efforts and more efficient use of resources.
In the interest of advancing the overarching goals of preventing, reducing, and effectively managing incidences of violence, vandalism, and substance abuse, the NJDOE and its partner state agencies support a diverse array of initiatives designed to help schools achieve the following objectives:
Programs, services, and activities designed to support these aims are at the heart of school safety. There have been important gains in our knowledge from the research literature in the last two decades on the types of school-based strategies that have proven to be effective in creating safe, supportive, disciplined and drug-free schools. At their core, all of the evidence-based school strategies for preventing problem student behaviors and for fostering positive student development are designed to advance the following protective factors:
Schools are most likely to prevent problem student behaviors and promote student well-being and success through comprehensive, coordinated and systematically planned programs, services and activities designed to develop student’s abilities to identify and manage emotions, make healthy decisions, establish constructive relationships, develop caring and concern for others and effectively manage challenging situations. The NJDOE’s initiatives are designed to help schools embrace and cultivate the strategies, increase the factors that protect students from engaging in at-risk behavior (e.g., unexcused absences, conduct problems, poor school performance, substance abuse, gang involvement,) and achieve the purposes described above.
School districts, county agencies and state agencies continue to coordinate and collaborate on programmatic responses that foster school safety, ranging from at-risk behavior prevention to threat assessment, intervention, crisis response, and recovery. The NJDOE’s ongoing responses to at-risk student behaviors and unsafe educational circumstances include:
The following district improvement initiatives support general prevention efforts because they focus on establishing school climates that are supportive, respectful and caring; creating meaningful adult-student relationships; providing learning experiences that are relevant and rigorous; and giving students the support needed to help them stay engaged and succeed in school:
The NJDOE plans to continue to expand its efforts to improve school safety. The following major initiatives are intended to prevent problem student behaviors, foster positive student development, and promote safe, disciplined and drug-free schools. The school safety initiatives and activities highlighted below are organized under the following categories:
1) Policy,
2) Data Collection and Reporting,
3) Prevention and Intervention Programs and Strategies, and
4) Collaboration and Technical Support.
Programs to Support Student Development (N.J.A.C. 6A:16)
Description: Originally adopted in 2001 and re-adopted in 2006, these regulations set minimum standards for district boards of education in establishing policies and procedures and in operating programs in the following areas:
Supportive Resources:
School Administrator Procedures: Responding to Critical Incidents
Description: The NJDOE has developed these procedures for school administrators in collaboration with the School Security Task Force. The procedures are model guides for active shooter scenarios, lockdown situations, bomb threats, evacuations, and public information scenarios. Each school is required to individualize the procedures for its specific school and community.
Supportive Resources:
Unsafe School Choice Option (USCO) Policy
Under the USCO policy for the 2008-2009 school year, one persistently dangerous school was identified, three schools were identified as being in early warning status, and one special services school was directed to develop a school safety plan. Training and technical assistance were provided to assigned NJDOE staff for supporting the designated schools. The NJDOE staff provided ongoing technical assistance to identified schools in the fulfillment of their obligations under the USCO Policy, including the development and implementation of corrective action plans.
Supportive Resources: The following USCO policy resources can be found at http://www.nj.gov/education/grants/nclb/guidance/usco/:
New Jersey Student Health Survey (NJSHS)
Description: The NJSHS is administered bi-annually among a statewide sample of public school students. This survey, which is based on the Youth Risk Behavior Survey sponsored by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, asks students to self-report on their actions and attitudes in six areas that are highly related to preventable, high-risk behaviors and premature injury or illness. The survey contains items on lifetime and recent use of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana, as well as lifetime use of other drugs. Concerning violence, the survey includes questions related to carrying weapons, fighting, having been hit by a boyfriend or girlfriend, having been forced to have sex, and having considered or tried to commit suicide.
The 2009 survey instrument contains items drawn from the New Jersey High School Survey of Risk and Protective Factors, administered by the New Jersey Department of Human Services’ Division of Addiction Services, that measure school and peer domain protective factors. The NJDOE uses the findings to gauge progress in reducing the various high-risk student behaviors and to identify needs for programming. In general, the findings are used by state agencies for planning, program assessment, and reporting to the federal government.
Supportive Resources:
Electronic Violence and Vandalism Reporting System (EVVRS)
Supportive Resources:
School Security Incident Reports (SSIRs)
Description: The NJDOE requires school district officials to submit an SSIR, as soon as possible, during or following a major incident in their districts. District officials forward the completed SSIR via electronic mail (e-mail) to the appropriate county office of education. After county office review, the SSIR is forwarded, via e-mail, to the NJDOE. The following are examples of major incidents that would require the completion of the SSIR:
The SSIR submission and review process is time-sensitive, meaning that a district may have numerous report submissions depending on the incidents; whereas, for example, reports entered into the EVVRS are cumulative. Therefore, district officials are asked to complete and forward the SSIR in a timely manner. The NJDOE’s Office of the Chief of Staff uses the information provided in the SSIRs for the following purposes:
To keep the Commissioner of Education and the Governor’s Office abreast of all current school security incidents and trends.
Supportive Resources:
On April 27, 2009, a memo and an updated School Security Incident Report form that included an FAQ sheet was disseminated from the Commissioner of Education to district chief school administrators and charter school lead persons, regarding the reporting of school security incidents.
Title IV-A Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) Performance Report
Description: Districts that receive funds under the Federal SDFSCA (Title IV-A of the No Child Left Behind Act), must complete a report regarding their use of SDFSCA funds. In the 2007-2008 report, districts reported on their programmatic approaches to the prevention of substance abuse and violence; their involvement of and consultations with parent and other community members; their utilization of school resource officers and substance awareness coordinators; their use of data in prevention planning and evaluation; the number of referrals of students to school-based and external agencies for problems related to substance use, steroid use and tobacco smoking; and the adoption of policies on voluntary policies for random testing of student alcohol or other drug use and the number and status of tests administered under the policies.
Supportive Resources: A report detailing the results of the 2007 and 2008 surveys will be available in the fall of 2009.
School Health Profiles Survey Profiles
Description: The School Health Profiles Survey, sponsored by United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is conducted biennially by state and local education and health agencies among middle and high school principals and lead health education teachers. The findings from the Profiles provide information on the characteristics of and trends in school-health education; physical education; health services; school health policies related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune-deficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention; tobacco-use prevention; violence prevention; physical activity; competitive foods (i.e., foods and beverages sold outside of the United States Department of Agriculture school meal programs); and family and community involvement in school health programs. In the fall of 2008, the Profiles survey was mailed to 425 secondary schools in New Jersey.
Supportive Resources:
Prevention and Intervention Programs and Strategies
Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) Program
Description: The capacity for local school response to behavioral, social-emotional and health problems is supplemented by federal funding provided specifically for school violence and substance-abuse prevention activities. The SDFSCA is the NJDOE’s sole source of funding dedicated to supporting all local educational agencies (i.e., school districts, charter schools, private nonprofit schools) in New Jersey in the development, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive programs and activities, which are coordinated with other school and community-based services and programs. School district applications for these formula funds are submitted as part of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) - Consolidated Formula Subgrant to foster the coordination and effective use of all NCLB and other school resources.
Target Population: All public and nonpublic school students in New Jersey in grades K-12 (ages 5-17).
Time Period: FY09.
Funding (Amount and Source): A total of $5.5 million ($5.1 million federal allocation and $400,000 carryover funds) was made available to school districts in 2008-2009 under the SDFSCA. The federal allocation represented a 37% ($2.6 million) reduction in federal funding provided to school districts under the SDFSCA from the amount provided in the 2005-2006 school years and a 43% total reduction in the amount available to school districts in the 2002-2003 school year. There has been a reduction of $4,190,154 in the annual allocation of SDFSCA funds to New Jersey since FY2003, from a total of $11,130,853 in FY03 to a total of $6,940,699 in FY09.
Supportive Resources:
Description: The NJDOE was awarded a grant from the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness for the 2007-2008 calendar year and for the 2008-2010 school years. Funding from this grant is being used to support two key school safety and security goals. The first goal is to increase the critical infrastructure protection of school facilities and school staff and students by ensuring that schools are identifying and reducing vulnerabilities, and they are practiced and prepared to efficiently and effectively respond to critical incidents. The second goal is to provide training and direct assistance services to school staff in the review of local school safety and security plans, procedures, best practices, and target-hardening initiatives.
Within its Office of the Chief of Staff, the NJDOE employs two safety and security planners under the grant and a state-funded position to provide services to schools for the planning, coordination and maintenance of safety and security for students, staff and school facilities. These dedicated positions provide technical support to school staff for the implementation of the School Sector’s Best Practices outlined in the School Safety and Security Manual: Best Practices Guidelines and the School Administrator Procedures: Responding to Critical Incidents publications developed in support of N.J.A.C. 6A:16-5.1,School safety and security plans. These staff members, who comprise the NJDOE’s School Security Unit, created a comprehensive training plan that resulted in statewide and regional trainings that concentrated on the information provided in the publication titled, School Administrator Procedures: Responding to Critical Incidents.
The NJDOE’s training and technical assistance activities have facilitated effective school crisis and emergency management planning, preparedness, and responses. The training and technical assistance also have improved local collaboration and expertise on best practices for school safety and security. Between the 2007-2009 academic years, the NJDOE provided approximately 4,400 people with training and services dedicated to school safety and security. These interactions have helped the NJDOE identify areas of development and revision for statewide policies and protocols intended to assist with statewide safety and security coordination.
The staff members of the School Security Unit address safety and security needs of schools identified by the NJDOE, in cooperation with the School Security Task Force (SSTF) and the Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force (DSPTF). The School Security Unit staff conducts school site visits, reviews school safety plans and procedures, provides direct technical assistance to schools statewide and provides statewide, regional, and local training to educators on safety and security issues. These NJDOE staff members also collaborate with the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, the Office of the Attorney General, Office of Emergency Management, state Police, other state, county, and local agencies, and critical infrastructure sectors identified by the SSTF and DSPTF for the statewide coordination of services designed to support school safety and security.
Target Population: All public and nonpublic school administrators and staff serving grades K-12.
Time Period: September 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010.
Funding (Amount and Source): $194,030 in State Homeland Security Program grant funds.
Supportive Resources:
Core Curriculum Content Standards (CCCS)
Description: Regulations for CCCS (N.J.A.C. 6A:8) in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education were adopted by the State Board of Education in April 2004. The CCCS in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education (CHPE) contain specific indicators under Standards 2.3 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs), 2.1 (Health Promotion and Disease Prevention - wellness concepts and skills), 2.2 (Personal, Interpersonal and Life Skills - health enhancing personal, interpersonal and life skills) and 2.4 ( Human Sexuality and Family Life – physical, emotional and social aspects of human relationships and sexuality) that require public schools to teach substance abuse and violence prevention skills, including media resistance, peer pressure resistance, peer leadership, problem-solving, conflict resolution and stress management. Topical strands infused in each of the CCCS in CHPE help teachers locate specific content and skills related to substance abuse and violence prevention. The standards are further defined by progress indicators at grades two, four, six, eight, and twelve.
Target Population: All public school students in grades K-12.
Time Period: Ongoing. (The existing CCCS regulations are being updated.)
Supportive Resources:
Intervention and Referral Services (I&RS) Initiatives
Description: The NJDOE’s I&RS initiatives support implementation of the I&RS regulations at N.J.A.C. 6A:16-8. The regulations require the establishment of building-based (grades K-12) multidisciplinary problem-solving teams to assist students who are experiencing learning, behavior or health difficulties and to assist staff who have difficulties in addressing students’ learning, behavior, or health needs. The technical assistance to I&RS teams provided by the NJDOE includes the following activities:
A course titled, “A Crash Course in the Brain: Using Current Knowledge to Understand Students’ Difficulties and Help Them Succeed” (400participants), was provided in each year from 2005-2008.
Target Population: Building-based I&RS team members, school administrators, and other school staff responsible for or involved with I&RS team operations.
Time Period:
Funding (Amount and Source):
Supportive Resources:
Description: The NJDOE is collaborating with Rutgers University to provide technical support to schools in fully integrating social-emotional and character development (SECD) throughout their educational programs. a primary tenet of the project is that successful performance of students can be enhanced through supportive SECD programs and services that are designed to increase coordination and decrease program and service gaps and overlap among SECD and other educational initiatives.
The training, technical assistance, and other supportive services and resources provided or coordinated by Rutgers University under the fourth year of this five-year project are intended to assist school staff in organizing the various resources, programs, and services to create strong SECD conditions, designed to result in reduced at-risk student behavior, the development of positive learning climates and improved academic performance among students in participating schools. A key component of years four and five of this project is the comprehensive evaluation of DSACS services in a cohort of 60 schools by tracking particular behavior indicators both prior to and after DSACS services have been provided and the SECD programs in the schools have been cohesively administered: this is in addition to the ongoing services provided to the 186 schools that participated in any of the first four years of the project.
Target Population:
Time Period: September 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009.
Funding (Amount and Source): $369,422,000 in federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act funds.
Supportive Resources: Information can be obtained at the DSACS project Web site found at http://www.secd-sdfspartners.com.
Other Relevant Resources: Research, articles, publications and other information on SECD can be found at the Web site of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning found at www.casel.org.
Character Education Initiatives
Description: The Federal Partnerships in Character Education Program (PCEP) grant awarded to the NJDOE in 2006 supports efforts designed to incorporate character education into the mainstream of changes occurring in curriculum standards and student services by addressing the following purposes: 1) increasing the capacity of New Jersey school systems to implement and sustain social-emotional and character education (SECD) programs in the context of current state reform efforts; and 2) evaluating the impact of character education on the social inclusion of students with disabilities. The NJDOE convenes a Statewide Advisory Board, which facilitates collaboration among multiple offices within the NJDOE on SECD issues, and has created, at Rutgers University, the Center for Social and Character Development (CSCD) to provide school staff with in-depth technical assistance and opportunities for professional development and skill enhancement.
Under the PCEP grant, the following activities are being implemented for the purpose of informing best practices and/or targeted technical assistance regarding SECD:
Target Population: All public and nonpublic schools.
Funding: $710,482 ($646,158 in Federal Character Education funds and $64,324 in federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act funds).
Time Period: October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009.
Support Resources: Resources, best practices and other information can be obtained at the CSCD Web site located at http://www.secd-sdfspartners.com.
Truancy Reduction Pilot Project
Description: The NJDOE is providing funding and resource and technical support for this project, which is designed to reduce student truancy and increase student engagement in learning in the schools of six cities in New Jersey identified under theGovernor’s Plan for Safe Streets and Neighborhoods. The project is being led by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in partnership with the NJDOE, the Juvenile Justice Commission, the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Department of Children and Families and the Department of State, as well as with the teams of school and community stakeholders in each of the six pilot cities. Consultation services are being provided to the partner state agencies and to the pilot cities by the National Center for School Engagement (NCSE).
Target Population: Asbury Park, Paterson, Newark, Camden, Vineland, and Trenton.
Time Period: January 1, 2009 through January 29, 2010.
Funding (Amount and Source): $104,800 in federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act funds.
Supportive Resources: The following Web sites contain information related to the project:
Description: The NJDOE continues to collaborate with the Center for Addiction Studies and Awareness (CASA) at Rowan University to implement the fourth year of a five-year project that uses established social psychological principles concerning the influence of group norms on individual behavior to achieve the following purposes: 1) reduce bullying, harassment, and intimidation behavior among students in participating New Jersey middle schools; and 2) reduce the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs among students in participating New Jersey high schools. Under the Social Norms Project, CASA performs assessments to determine actual norms regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and bullying, harassment, and intimidation behavior in participating schools, as appropriate, and develops and implements marketing campaigns to inform students, school staff, parents and other community members of these norms.
Target Population: 19 New Jersey middle schools and 15 high schools.
Time Period: October 1, 2009 through September 2010.
Funding (Amount and Source): $250,000 in Federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act funds.
Supportive Resources: Information can be found at the project Web site located at http://www.rowan.edu/casa/currentprojects/njdesnp.html.
Other Relevant Resources: Additional information on the social norms approach to the prevention of problem behavior can be found at the Web site of the National Social Norms Institute found at http://www.socialnorms.org/.
Title IV-A and Unsafe School Choice Option Policy Training and Technical Assistance Project
Description: This initiative, in collaboration with the Center for Applied Psychology at Rutgers University, provides school district and NJDOE staff with technical assistance, training programs, resource development, support and information services for the successful implementation of the requirements of the federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) and N.J.A.C. 6A:16-3, 4, 6 and 7. The project also provides assistance to schools identified as either persistently dangerous or in early warning status as well as to special services schools identified under the NJDOE’s federally-mandated Unsafe School Choice Option (USCO) policy for the purpose of developing corrective action or school safety plans, as appropriate, to reduce the number of incidents of violence in the identified schools, as determined based on the data collected in the Electronic Violence and Vandalism Reporting System.
Approximately 1,450 school staff members have participated in workshops offered by project staff since 2007. Workshops have been provided on the following topics:
Target Population: General project services are available to all school staff (grades K-12). Services provided in support of the USCO policy are available to all school and NJDOE staff responsible for implementation of the NJDOE’s USCO policy.
Time Period: November 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009.
Funding (Amount and Source): $249,513 in federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act funds.
Supportive Resources: Project information, including Web-based resources (e.g., a searchable database of scientifically research-based programs), workshop videos, PowerPoint presentations, guides, tip sheets, and program handouts are available on the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities (SDFSC) Project Web site at http://www.secd-sdfspartners.com.
21st Century Community Learning Centers Programs
Description: Under Title IV, Part B of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) are defined as centers that offer academic remediation and enrichment activities in tandem with a broad array of other enrichment activities in the areas of arts and culture, youth development, physical activity and parental involvement to students and their adult family members when school is not in session. The program aims to provide engaging and enriching extended learning opportunities in a safe and welcoming environment for all youth and their families that encourage positive social skills, innovative thinking, exploration, creativity and problem-solving skills, while assisting the students in attaining the skills necessary to meet New Jersey’s Core Curriculum Content Standards. Currently, there are 42 programs throughout 121 sites across New Jersey that have enrolled over 19,000 students.
Target Population: The purpose of the 21st CCLC Program is to supplement the education of students in grades 4-12, who attend schools eligible for Title I schoolwide programs or schools where a minimum of 30 percent of the students are from low-income families.
Time Period: July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009
Funding (Amount and Source):$ 20,170,012in federalNCLB, Title IV, Part B funds.
Supportive Resources:
Other Relevant Resources:
New Jersey School-Age Care Coalition
Description: Since 2003, OESS has contracted, through a cooperative grant agreement, with the New Jersey School-Age Care Coalition (NJSACC) to provide training and technical assistance, in the areas of program quality, sustainability and networking for 21st CCLC grantee recipients and other afterschool providers throughout the state in an effort to build the capacity of staff, thereby increasing the quality of these programs. Through this cooperative grant agreement, NJSACC has provided trainings and technical assistance that included: creating a welcoming environment and designing engaging activities for students and their families; understanding the National Afterschool Association’s (NAA) “Standards of Quality,” and ensuring health and safety. Additionally, NJSACC coordinated a statewide training, “Effective Management of an Out-of-School Time Program,” conducted by the National Institute of Out-of-School Time (NIOST). Finally, NJSACC has conducted site visits to help agencies address monitoring findings to ensure continuous improvement and program quality.
Target Population: 21st CCLC grantees and other potential applicants.
Time Period: October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009
Funding (Amount and Source): $150,000 in federalNCLB, Title IV, Part B funds.
Supportive Resources:
Other relevant resources:
New Jersey Afterschool Network
Description: In April 2007, five New Jersey organizations: the New Jersey School-Age Care Coalition (NJSACC), New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE), New Jersey Department of Human Services (NJDHS), New Jersey Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NJACCRRA), New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF), and New Jersey After 3 (NJA3), believing in the need for a coordinated effort of afterschool funds, policy and school-community connections, applied for funding from the Charles S. Mott Foundation as the New Jersey Afterschool Network (NJAN).
The New Jersey Afterschool Network is designed to build lasting public support for quality afterschool programs across New Jersey. The focus of NJAN is on building public awareness and support; offering guidance for parents, providers and advocates; strengthening relationships with policymakers, funders, practitioners and parents; and sharing best practices in the field. The NJSACC is serving as the coordinating and fiduciary agent of NJAN.
Target Population: All afterschool programs throughout New Jersey.
Time Period: October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009
Funding (Amount and Source): $31,000 in federalNCLB, Title IV, Part B funds.
Supportive Resources:
Other relevant resources:
Drug Abuse Education Fund Project
Description: As required under N.J.S.A. 2C:43-3.5 and N.J.S.A..54A:9-25.12 et seq., a Drug Abuse Education Fund was established from portions of taxpayer-designated refunds and penalties assessed against individuals adjudicated or convicted of certain crimes. A portion of the resources accumulated in the fund are appropriated annually to the NJDOE for distribution to nongovernmental entities for the use of law enforcement personnel in providing drug abuse education to students in grades kindergarten through twelve on a statewide basis. Under the appropriation for these statutory provisions, funds have been provided annually to D.A.R.E. New Jersey, Inc. for the provision of substance abuse education to students in New Jersey schools.
Target Population: All public school students in grades K-12.
Time Period: FY09
Funding (Amount and Source): $375,000 in State Drug Abuse Education Funds.
Supportive Resources: D.A.R.E. New Jersey, Inc. at http://www.darenj.com/.
Collaboration and Technical Support
Governor’s Strategy for Safe Streets and Neighborhoods
Description: This strategy is a comprehensive approach for addressing the problems of gangs, youth violence and illegal guns; improving the delivery of the support and services that prevent children from becoming delinquent; targeting and intensifying law enforcement officials’ focus on perpetrators of gang and street-level violence; and keeping individuals released from prisons and detention centers from engaging in future criminal behavior. The strategy uses three pillars for promoting a safer New Jersey: enforcement, prevention, and reentry, with the foundation being effective prevention programs aimed at reducing the factors that place youth at risk for delinquency.
Under this strategy, state departments, their respective staff and the funds managed by them are engaged in support of the common goal of public safety. The NJDOE closely coordinates with the Attorney General’s office and other state agencies for the successful coordination and implementation of the strategy, including serving on the various work and advisory groups, such as the Prevention Coordinating Council, formed to coordinate state and local public safety efforts.
Three key initiatives being implemented to support the educational mission through these collaborative partnerships are described below:
Supportive Resources:
Collaboration with Law Enforcement
Description: The NJDOE coordinates with the New Jersey Department of Law and Pubic Safety on matters related to safety and the illegal use or possession of substances and weapons through the Attorney General’s Education and Law Enforcement Working Group. As set forth in N.J.A.C. 6A:16-6, each school district is required to establish a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with local law enforcement authorities. The MOA, which is reviewed and signed annually by local education and law enforcement officials, forms the basis for information sharing among education and law enforcement representatives and sets parameters for law enforcement investigations on school grounds. The MOA must be consistent with the format and content established by the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Education in the Uniform State Memorandum of Agreement between Education and Law Enforcement Officials.
In November 2007, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Education issued a revised MOA, which contains new information on school safety and security, including information on school security plans and training; gang threats, recruitment and information sharing; harassment, intimidation, and bullying; offenses involving computers; offenses involving hazing; reports of child abuse or neglect; law enforcement units; inquiries regarding law enforcement operations, stationhouse adjustments, and notification of arrests or charges filed against school personnel; notification of emergencies; and School Violence Awareness Week.
The NJDOE coordinates with the Office of the Attorney General on the Gang Awareness Initiative. On October 12, 2007, Governor Jon S. Corzine signed into law N.J.S.C. 52:17B-4.7, which requires the Attorney General, in coordination with the Commissioner of Education, to develop seminars to teach school administrators to recognize signs of gang involvement or activity. The law also requires that a seminar on gang awareness be held annually in each county for all public and nonpublic school administrators. These training sessions are offered by each county prosecutor’s office in conjunction with the county office of education, and the training programs address gang awareness and related topics and are facilitated by trainers from various law enforcement agencies.
Additionally, the NJDOE collaborated with the Office of the Attorney General and the New Jersey State Police Cyber Crimes Unit on Governor Corzine’s Internet Safety Initiative. In August 2007, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Education announced a training program on Internet safety for school teachers and administrators. The program was developed as a “train the trainer” model, preparing representatives from various agencies to deliver the training. The training curriculum included information on cyberbullying, the potential dangers of social networking sites and gambling sites, the behavioral traits of sexual predators and the methods they use to lure potential victims. Seven regional trainings were provided in the 2007-2008 school year for over 1,000 educators.
Supportive Resources:
The current Uniform State Memorandum of Agreement between Education and Law Enforcement Officials can be found at http://www.state.nj.us/education/schools/security/regs/agree.doc.
Collaboration with the New Jersey School Security Task Force
Description: In October 2006, Governor Jon S. Corzine announced the creation of a School Security Task Force to evaluate security measures at New Jersey schools. The NJDOE coordinates with the New Jersey School Security Task Force, which brings together state, county and local government officials, as well as members of the education and law enforcement communities, to address school safety and security matters. Specifically, the members of the School Security Task Force include county prosecutors, county superintendents, school district superintendents, the New Jersey Education Association, the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, nonpublic school representatives, fire officials, State Police, Office of Emergency Management, and municipal law enforcement officials. The NJDOE also coordinates with the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, which is responsible for chairing the School Security Task Force, to provide key technical assistance and guidance in response to policy development for school safety and security.
The School Security Task Force has made key recommendations regarding the preparedness of schools to manage critical incidents. As a result of these recommendations, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Education issued “parallel” directives to law enforcement and education officials respectively, which contained model procedures for responding to active shooter scenarios, school lockdowns, school evacuations, school bomb threats, as well as responding to public information requests regarding school safety and security incidents. In October 2007, the NJDOE disseminated the educational directives, or model procedures, titled School Administrator Procedures: Responding to Critical Incidents. The NJDOE, in collaboration with the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, also developed online training modules titled Critical Incident Response Procedures for School Administrators, Faculty and Staff. This training tool for educators focuses on the contents of the School Administrator Procedures publication and provides school districts with information to assist them in enhancing communication, cooperation and coordination with emergency responders, resulting in improved responses to threats and hazards. In June 2009, each school was provided with a training tool titled Critical Response Procedures, in CD format, to assist districts with the training of all school staff in responding to critical incidents in schools, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 6A:16-5.1(d).
Supportive Resources:
Collaboration with the New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force
Description:The NJDOE coordinates with the New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force, pursuant to P.L.2001, ch. 246, the Domestic Security Preparedness Act, which is chaired by the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness and includes representatives from appropriate state agencies. The NJDOE has representation on the Domestic Security Preparedness Executive Planning Committee and the Domestic Security Preparedness Planning Group.
As a result of Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force planning, a committee was formed to specifically address the unique needs of schools for responding to potential attacks and threats. The Infrastructure Advisory Committee - School Sector recommended the development of a publication titled School Safety and Security Manual: Best Practices Guidelines. The second generation of the manual was disseminated to all chief school administrators as a secure document in January 2007. Additionally, key stakeholders continue to meet to develop the minimum requirements for school districts’ school safety and security plans.
Supportive Resources:
Collaboration with Human Services Agencies and Student Support Staff
Description: One of the conclusions drawn from widely publicized violent incidents in our society is that schools should examine how they collaborate with local mental health agencies and how they utilize existing student support services staff. The effective use of student support services staff and the development of cooperative relationships between them and mental health providers are important components of schools' responses to violence. Therefore, the NJDOE continues to forge links among New Jersey schools, mental health, and other human service and health providers to establish effective working relationships, identify areas of concern, and consider strategies for improving the delivery of student support services.
Specifically, NJDOE staff collaborates with the leadership of the Association of Student Assistance Professionals of New Jersey, the New Jersey Association of School Psychologists and the New Jersey School Counselors Association on comprehensive student support services issues. Representatives of these organizations serve on advisory committees for NJDOE projects, including the Social Norms Project and the Developing Safe and Civil Schools: A Collaborative Approach to Social-Emotional and Character Development initiative.
Supportive Resources:
Collaboration with Child Welfare Agencies
Description: In an effort to provide supportive services and resources that address the needs of the whole child, the NJDOE has increased its efforts to collaborate with child welfare agencies for the purpose of information-sharing, support and access to schools and policy development. The NJDOE coordinates with the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF) in a number of ways:
Supportive Resources: The DOE/DCF intends to make the training protocol available in the fall of 2009.
Other Collaborative Partnerships
Description: The NJDOE aims to continue to collaborate with the following groups: New Jersey School Boards Association, New Jersey Association of School Administrators, New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association, New Jersey Education Association, New Jersey School Counselors Association, Association of Student Assistance Professionals of New Jersey, New Jersey Association of School Psychologists, New Jersey Association of School Social Workers, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), including the Violence Institute of New Jersey at UMDNJ and the County Traumatic Loss Coalitions for Youth administered by UMDNJ, the Departments of State, Health and Senior Services, Human Services, Children and Families and Law and Public Safety, including the Juvenile Justice Commission and the Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force and affiliated committees and work groups, the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Attorney General’s Office, including the Education and Law Enforcement Working Group, and other organizations, associations and agencies.
The NJDOE continues to be represented on the following organizations and their subgroups: Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Governor’s Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council, Governor’s Advisory Council on Domestic Violence, Governor’s Advisory Council on Sexual Violence, New Jersey Association of County Youth Services Coordinators, Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Committee and School-based Probation Committee, New Jersey Coalition for Bullying Awareness and Prevention, Commission on Bullying in Schools, Childhood Drinking Coalition and Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force and intends to continue to support the various collaborative initiatives described above.
The NJDOE coordinates with the New Jersey Alliance for Social and Character Development (NJASECD) on information and resource-sharing and technical assistance to local school districts regarding social-emotional and character development. The NJDOE has served as a collaborator in each of the two annual conferences held by the organization, and continues to serve as a resource to the NJASECD Advisory Board.
Supportive Resources: Information on the New Jersey Alliance for Social and Character Development can be found at http://www.eirc.org/website/Programs-+and+-Services/NJASECD-Character-Ed.html
Appendix A: Public School Safety Law
AN ACT concerning violence in the public schools and amending P.L.1982, c.163.
C.18A:17-46 Reporting of act of violence by school employee; annual report; public hearing.
Any school employee observing or having direct knowledge from a participant or victim of an act of violence shall, in accordance with standards established by the commissioner, file a report describing the incident to the school principal in a manner prescribed by the commissioner, and copy of same shall be forwarded to the district superintendent.
The principal shall notify the district superintendent of schools of the action taken regarding the incident. Annually, at a public hearing, the superintendent of schools shall report to the board of education all acts of violence and vandalism which occurred during the previous school year. Verification of the annual report on violence and vandalism shall be part of the State's monitoring of the school district, and the State Board of Education shall adopt regulations that impose a penalty on a school employee who knowingly falsifies the report. A board of education shall provide ongoing staff training, in cooperation with the Department of Education, in fulfilling the reporting requirements pursuant to this section. The majority representative of the school employees shall have access monthly to the number and disposition of all reported acts of school violence and vandalism.
Approved February 15, 2007.
18A:17-47. Discharge of, or discrimination against, school employee who files report
It shall be unlawful for any board of education to discharge or in any manner discriminate against a school employee as to his employment because the employee had filed a report pursuant to section 1 of this act. Any employee discriminated against shall be restored to his employment and shall be compensated by the board of education for any loss of wages arising out of the discrimination; provided, however, if the employee shall cease to be qualified to perform the duties of his employment he shall not be entitled to restoration and compensation.
L.1982, c. 163, s. 2, eff. Oct. 28, 1982.
18A:17-48. Annual report to legislature
The Commissioner of Education shall each year submit a report to the Education Committees of the Senate and General Assembly detailing the extent of violence and vandalism in the public schools and making recommendations to alleviate the problem.
L.1982, c. 163, s. 3, eff. Oct. 28, 1982.
Appendix B: Data Collection Form
Appendix C: Figures 1-20
Figure 1. Total Incidents for Major Reporting Categories
Figure 2. Frequency of Types of Violence, 2007-2008
Figure 3. Frequency of Types of Vandalism, 2007-2008
Figure 4. Frequency of Types of Weapons and Substance Abuse, 2007-2008
Figure 5. Trends in HIBT* Incidents
Figure 6. Count of Schools by range of HIBT* Incidents, 2006-07 & 2007-08
Figure 7. Summary of HIBT* Student Offenders by Grade Level, 2007-08
Figure 8. Incidents by Location
Figure 9. Location of Violence and Weapon Incidents, 2007-08
Figure 10. Location of Vandalism Incidents, 2007-08
Figure 11. Types of Incidents Occurring in the Classroom
Figure 12. Types of Incidents of Violence Occurring in the Classroom
Figure 13. Gang Related Incidents by Major Category, 2007-08
Figure 14. Police Notification of Incidents, 2007 – 2008
Figure 15. Disciplinary Action Taken, 2007-08
Figure 16. Number of Suspensions by Duration, 2007-08
Figure 17. Program Provided as Part of Disciplinary Action Taken, 2007-08
Figure 18. Comparison of Offender Types, 2006-07 & 2007-08
Figure 19. Comparison of Victim Types, 2006-07 & 2007-08
Figure 20. Types of Incidents where Staff was Victim, 2007-08
* Harassment/Intimidation/Bullying/Threat
Appendix D: District Totals by County
Types of Violence, Vandalism, Weapons Offenses, and Substance Abuse
Violence |
Vandalism |
Simple Assault |
Arson |
Weapons |
Substance Abuse |
Firearm Bomb Offense (exploded/did not explode) Other Weapon |
Use |
Total
Unduplicated count of incidents. May not sum to the total of the four categories.
County | District | Enrollment | Violence | Vandalism | Weapons | Substances | Total |
ATLANTIC | |||||||
ABSECON CITY | 822 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
ATLANTIC CITY | 6,392 | 117 | 15 | 11 | 63 | 206 | |
ATLANTIC CO SPECIAL SERV | 460 | 57 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 61 | |
ATLANTIC CO VOCATIONAL | 615 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | |
BRIGANTINE CITY | 852 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | |
BUENA REGIONAL | 2,497 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 54 | |
chARTer~TECH HIGH SCHOOL | 243 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | |
EGG HARBOR CITY | 502 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |
EGG HARBOR TWP | 7,665 | 105 | 21 | 13 | 18 | 156 | |
ESTELL MANOR CITY | 221 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
FOLSOM BORO | 416 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Galloway Community CS | 296 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
GALLOWAY TWP | 3,683 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 21 | |
GREATER EGG HARBOR REG | 3,877 | 59 | 16 | 6 | 23 | 103 | |
HAMILTON TWP | 3,229 | 31 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 38 | |
HAMMONTON TOWN | 3,285 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 18 | |
LINWOOD CITY | 997 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
MAINLAND REGIONAL | 1,591 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 48 | |
MARGATE CITY | 560 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MULLICA TWP | 724 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
NORTHFIELD CITY | 1,071 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
Oceanside CS | 378 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
PleasanTech Academy CS | 607 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
PLEASANTVILLE CITY | 3,478 | 32 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 71 | |
PORT REPUBLIC CITY | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
SOMERS POINT CITY | 1,115 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 15 | |
VENTNOR CITY | 943 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
WEYMOUTH TWP | 256 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
County Total | 46,881 | 575 | 108 | 69 | 143 | 887 | |
BERGEN | |||||||
ALLENDALE BORO | 992 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
ALPINE BORO | 134 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Bergen Arts and Sciences | 298 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
BERGEN CO SPECIAL SERVICE | 1,081 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
BERGEN COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 2,056 | 22 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 39 | |
BERGENFIELD BORO | 3,512 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
BOGOTA BORO | 1,246 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 22 | |
CARLSTADT BORO | 568 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
CARLSTADT-EAST RUTHERFORD | 523 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |
CLIFFSIDE PARK BORO | 2,588 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | |
CLOSTER BORO | 1,156 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
CRESSKILL BORO | 1,689 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | |
DEMAREST BORO | 663 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
DUMONT BORO | 2,817 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 38 | |
EAST RUTHERFORD BORO | 682 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
EDGEWATER BORO | 443 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | |
ELMWOOD PARK | 2,234 | 26 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 39 | |
EMERSON BORO | 1,197 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
ENGLEWOOD CITY | 2,699 | 71 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 98 | |
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS BORO | 436 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Englewood on the Palisade | 181 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
FAIR LAWN BORO | 4,772 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 26 | |
FAIRVIEW BORO | 1,057 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
FORT LEE BORO | 3,472 | 37 | 54 | 2 | 4 | 97 | |
FRANKLIN LAKES BORO | 1,471 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
GARFIELD CITY | 4,492 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 32 | |
GLEN ROCK BORO | 2,479 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
HACKENSACK CITY | 4,879 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | |
HARRINGTON PARK BORO | 738 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS BORO | 1,561 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 25 | |
HAWORTH BORO | 514 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
HILLSDALE BORO | 1,439 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 23 | |
HO HO KUS BORO | 660 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
LEONIA BORO | 1,724 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 19 | |
LITTLE FERRY BORO | 958 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
LODI BOROUGH | 3,127 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 16 | |
LYNDHURST TWP | 2,224 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | |
MAHWAH TWP | 3,442 | 32 | 52 | 0 | 4 | 88 | |
MAYWOOD BORO | 870 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
MIDLAND PARK BORO | 1,134 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
MONTVALE BORO | 1,002 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
MOONACHIE BORO | 268 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
NEW MILFORD BORO | 2,021 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 36 | |
NORTH ARLINGTON BORO | 1,598 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 28 | |
NORTHERN HIGHLANDS REG | 1,274 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | |
NORTHERN VALLEY REGIONAL | 2,526 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 23 | 42 | |
NORTHVALE BORO | 591 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
NORWOOD BORO | 626 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
OAKLAND BORO | 1,676 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
OLD TAPPAN BORO | 872 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
ORADELL BORO | 794 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
PALISADES PARK | 1,439 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 30 | |
PARAMUS BORO | 4,328 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 57 | |
PARK RIDGE BORO | 1,370 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 10 | |
PASCACK VALLEY REGIONAL | 1,900 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 17 | |
RAMAPO-INDIAN HILL REG | 2,327 | 31 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 50 | |
RAMSEY BORO | 3,132 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 36 | |
RIDGEFIELD BORO | 2,004 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 27 | |
RIDGEFIELD PARK TWP | 2,085 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE | 5,588 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 12 | 42 | |
RIVER DELL REGIONAL | 1,526 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 10 | |
RIVER EDGE BORO | 1,126 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
RIVER VALE TWP | 1,391 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 14 | |
ROCHELLE PARK TWP | 499 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
RUTHERFORD BORO | 2,447 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | |
SADDLE BROOK TWP | 1,756 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 24 | |
SADDLE RIVER BORO | 230 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SOUTH BERGEN JOINTURE COM | 337 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
SOUTH HACKENSACK TWP | 221 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Teaneck Community CS | 267 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
TEANECK TWP | 3,988 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 52 | |
TENAFLY BORO | 3,463 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 19 | |
UPPER SADDLE RIVER BORO | 1,377 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
WALDWICK BORO | 1,584 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14 | |
WALLINGTON BORO | 1,152 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
WESTWOOD REGIONAL | 2,617 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | |
WOODCLIFF LAKE BORO | 830 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
WOOD-RIDGE BORO | 1,150 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 13 | |
WYCKOFF TWP | 2,355 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 32 | |
County Total | 133,935 | 728 | 358 | 67 | 220 | 1,352 | |
BURLINGTON | |||||||
BASS RIVER TWP | 115 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
BEVERLY CITY | 217 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
BORDENTOWN REGIONAL | 2,351 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 35 | |
BURLINGTON CITY | 1,806 | 129 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 149 | |
BURLINGTON CO SPEC SERV | 992 | 28 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 61 | |
BURLINGTON CO VOCATIONAL | 2,138 | 54 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 66 | |
BURLINGTON TWP | 4,164 | 34 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 52 | |
CHESTERFIELD TWP | 395 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
CINNAMINSON TWP | 2,469 | 50 | 17 | 2 | 9 | 75 | |
DELANCO TWP | 388 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
DELRAN TWP | 2,850 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 29 | |
EASTAMPTON TWP | 743 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
EDGEWATER PARK TWP | 827 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | |
EVESHAM TWP | 4,919 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 22 | |
FLORENCE TWP | 1,611 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 38 | |
HAINESPORT TWP | 658 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
LENAPE REGIONAL | 7,474 | 50 | 7 | 4 | 32 | 93 | |
LUMBERTON TWP | 1,727 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
MANSFIELD TWP | 695 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
MAPLE SHADE TWP | 2,048 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 18 | |
MEDFORD LAKES BORO | 538 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
MEDFORD TWP | 3,059 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
MOORESTOWN TWP | 4,399 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 18 | |
MOUNT HOLLY TWP | 986 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
MOUNT LAUREL TWP | 4,387 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
NEW HANOVER TWP | 154 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
NORTH HANOVER TWP | 1,157 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
NORTHERN BURLINGTON REG | 1,821 | 48 | 17 | 2 | 9 | 76 | |
PALMYRA BORO | 990 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 25 | |
PEMBERTON TWP | 5,008 | 43 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 56 | |
RANCOCAS VALLEY REGIONAL | 2,341 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 42 | |
RIVERSIDE TWP | 1,435 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 | |
RIVERTON | 254 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
SHAMONG TWP | 934 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
SOUTHAMPTON TWP | 796 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
SPRINGFIELD TWP | 305 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
TABERNACLE TWP | 878 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
WASHINGTON TWP | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
WESTAMPTON | 930 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
WILLINGBORO TWP | 4,674 | 110 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 141 | |
WOODLAND TWP | 159 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
County Total | 73,860 | 771 | 156 | 66 | 152 | 1,131 | |
CAMDEN | |||||||
AUDUBON BORO | 1,523 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | |
BARRINGTON BORO | 571 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | |
BELLMAWR BORO | 1,051 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
BERLIN BORO | 837 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
BERLIN TWP | 590 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
BLACK HORSE PIKE REGIONAL | 4,275 | 73 | 19 | 4 | 44 | 140 | |
BROOKLAWN BORO | 315 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Camden Academy Charter HS | 401 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
CAMDEN CITY | 13,105 | 90 | 33 | 13 | 6 | 140 | |
CAMDEN CO ED SERV COMM | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
CAMDEN COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 1,868 | 89 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 122 | |
Camden's Promise CS | 407 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
CHERRY HILL TWP | 11,544 | 40 | 19 | 5 | 43 | 107 | |
CHESILHURST | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
CLEMENTON BORO | 519 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
COLLINGSWOOD BORO | 1,917 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 17 | |
D.U.E. Season CS | 471 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
EASTERN CAMDEN COUNTY REG | 2,126 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 61 | |
Environment Community CS | 241 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Freedom Academy CS | 257 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
GIBBSBORO BORO | 259 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
GLOUCESTER CITY | 2,125 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 46 | |
GLOUCESTER TWP | 7,619 | 59 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 68 | |
HADDON HEIGHTS BORO | 1,310 | 38 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 49 | |
HADDON TWP | 2,144 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 20 | |
HADDONFIELD BORO | 2,388 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 27 | |
LAUREL SPRINGS BORO | 162 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
LAWNSIDE BORO | 297 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
LEAP Academy University C | 768 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | |
LINDENWOLD BORO | 2,264 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 29 | |
MAGNOLIA BORO | 460 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
MERCHANTVILLE BORO | 355 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
MOUNT EPHRAIM BORO | 447 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
OAKLYN BORO | 450 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
PENNSAUKEN TWP | 5,568 | 31 | 19 | 10 | 11 | 67 | |
PINE HILL BORO | 2,182 | 36 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 65 | |
RUNNEMEDE BORO | 789 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SOMERDALE BORO | 476 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | |
STERLING HIGH SCHOOL DIST | 1,047 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 41 | |
STRATFORD BORO | 828 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
VOORHEES TWP | 3,321 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |
WATERFORD TWP | 913 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 28 | |
WINSLOW TWP | 6,063 | 40 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 61 | |
WOODLYNNE BORO | 459 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
County Total | 84,820 | 757 | 188 | 89 | 227 | 1,243 | |
CAPE MAY | |||||||
AVALON BORO | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
CAPE MAY CITY | 154 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
CAPE MAY CO SPECIAL SERV | 327 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 28 | |
CAPE MAY CO VOCATIONAL | 590 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13 | |
DENNIS TWP | 697 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
LOWER CAPE MAY REGIONAL | 1,740 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 51 | |
LOWER TWP | 1,837 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MIDDLE TWP | 2,894 | 31 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 46 | |
NORTH WILDWOOD CITY | 308 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
OCEAN CITY | 2,048 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 72 | |
SEA ISLE CITY | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
STONE HARBOR BORO | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
UPPER TWP | 1,568 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 10 | |
WEST CAPE MAY BORO | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
WILDWOOD CITY | 879 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 48 | |
WILDWOOD CREST BORO | 278 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
WOODBINE BORO | 211 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
County Total | 13,822 | 166 | 36 | 10 | 74 | 283 | |
CUMBERLAND | |||||||
BRIDGETON CITY | 4,708 | 33 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 44 | |
COMMERCIAL TWP | 671 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
CUMBERLAND CO VOCATIONAL | 277 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 26 | |
CUMBERLAND REGIONAL | 1,326 | 48 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 81 | |
DEERFIELD TWP | 352 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
DOWNE TWP | 169 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
FAIRFIELD TWP | 609 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 13 | |
GREENWICH TWP | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
HOPEWELL TWP | 572 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
LAWRENCE TWP | 452 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | |
MAURICE RIVER TWP | 393 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
MILLVILLE CITY | 6,267 | 97 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 128 | |
STOW CREEK TWP | 138 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
UPPER DEERFIELD TWP | 896 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
VINELAND CITY | 9,768 | 114 | 21 | 24 | 17 | 175 | |
County Total | 26,679 | 351 | 55 | 66 | 49 | 514 | |
ESSEX | |||||||
Adelaide L. Sandford CS | 144 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
BELLEVILLE TOWN | 4,435 | 56 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 80 | |
BLOOMFIELD TWP | 5,950 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 36 | |
CALDWELL-WEST CALDWELL | 2,630 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | |
CEDAR GROVE TWP | 1,581 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
CITY OF ORANGE TWP | 4,569 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 33 | |
Discovery CS | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
EAST ORANGE | 9,892 | 54 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 85 | |
East Orange Community CS | 495 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
ESSEX CO ED SERV COMM | 149 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 27 | |
ESSEX CO VOC-TECH | 2,121 | 24 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 46 | |
ESSEX FELLS BORO | 250 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
FAIRFIELD TWP | 729 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
GLEN RIDGE BORO | 1,876 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
Gray CS | 308 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Greater Newark CS | 191 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
IRVINGTON TOWNSHIP | 7,276 | 128 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 155 | |
Lady Liberty Academy CS | 424 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
LIVINGSTON TWP | 5,579 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 41 | |
Maria L. Varisco-Rogers C | 137 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Marion P. Thomas CS | 393 | 60 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 72 | |
MILLBURN TWP | 4,664 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 33 | |
MONTCLAIR TOWN | 6,562 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 29 | |
New Horizons Comm. CS | 469 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
NEWARK CITY | 40,507 | 109 | 60 | 23 | 12 | 201 | |
NORTH CALDWELL BORO | 634 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
North Star Acad. CS of Ne | 597 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
NUTLEY TOWN | 4,033 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
Robert Treat Academy CS | 450 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
ROSELAND BORO | 485 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SOUTH ORANGE-MAPLEWOOD | 6,085 | 85 | 21 | 6 | 9 | 120 | |
TEAM Academy Charter Scho | 621 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
University Heights CS | 240 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
VERONA BORO | 2,034 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 21 | |
WEST ESSEX REGIONAL | 1,573 | 22 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 44 | |
WEST ORANGE TOWN | 6,359 | 31 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 46 | |
County Total | 124,512 | 746 | 264 | 80 | 77 | 1,147 | |
GLOUCESTER | |||||||
CLAYTON BORO | 1,307 | 70 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 78 | |
CLEARVIEW REGIONAL | 2,405 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 66 | |
DELSEA REGIONAL H.S DIST. | 1,783 | 21 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 50 | |
DEPTFORD TWP | 4,341 | 39 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 55 | |
EAST GREENWICH TWP | 806 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
ELK TWP | 373 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
FRANKLIN TWP | 1,480 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
GATEWAY REGIONAL | 971 | 34 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 50 | |
GLASSBORO | 2,347 | 21 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 43 | |
GLOUCESTER CO SPEC SERV | 677 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
GLOUCESTER CO VOCATIONAL | 889 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
GREENWICH TWP | 535 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
HARRISON TWP | 1,510 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
KINGSWAY REGIONAL | 2,046 | 40 | 11 | 1 | 20 | 72 | |
LOGAN TWP | 873 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
MANTUA TWP | 1,540 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
MONROE TWP | 6,039 | 34 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 71 | |
NATIONAL PARK BORO | 302 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
PAULSBORO BORO | 1,400 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
PITMAN BORO | 1,605 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16 | |
SOUTH HARRISON TWP | 328 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
SWEDESBORO-WOOLWICH | 1,519 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
WASHINGTON TWP | 8,932 | 87 | 9 | 12 | 29 | 134 | |
WENONAH BORO | 247 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
WEST DEPTFORD TWP | 3,266 | 68 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 97 | |
WESTVILLE BORO | 353 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
WOODBURY CITY | 1,599 | 33 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 41 | |
WOODBURY HEIGHTS BORO | 224 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
County Total | 49,694 | 516 | 124 | 44 | 145 | 820 | |
HUDSON | |||||||
BAYONNE CITY | 8,810 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 35 | |
C.R.E.A.T.E. CS | 390 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
EAST NEWARK BORO | 225 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
Elysian CS of Hoboken | 262 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
GUTTENBERG TOWN | 956 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
HARRISON TOWN | 1,820 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 18 | |
HOBOKEN CITY | 2,294 | 62 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 86 | |
Hoboken CS | 271 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
HUDSON COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 1,341 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
JERSEY CITY | 28,119 | 129 | 9 | 63 | 76 | 268 | |
Jersey City Comm. CS | 570 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | |
Jersey City Golden Door | 502 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
KEARNY TOWN | 5,615 | 45 | 9 | 2 | 13 | 69 | |
Learning Community CS | 323 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
Liberty Academy CS | 283 | 39 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 45 | |
NORTH BERGEN TWP | 7,465 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 47 | |
Schomburg CS | 298 | 37 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 39 | |
SECAUCUS TOWN | 2,077 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 21 | |
Soaring Heights CS | 206 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
UNION CITY | 9,730 | 144 | 19 | 6 | 23 | 191 | |
University Academy CS | 415 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | |
WEEHAWKEN TWP | 1,164 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
WEST NEW YORK TOWN | 7,054 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 44 | |
County Total | 80,189 | 660 | 101 | 89 | 160 | 991 | |
HUNTERDON | |||||||
ALEXANDRIA TWP | 628 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
BETHLEHEM TWP | 601 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
BLOOMSBURY BORO | 146 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
CALIFON BORO | 143 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
CLINTON TOWN | 538 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
CLINTON TWP | 1,774 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
DELAWARE TWP | 479 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL | 977 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 17 | |
EAST AMWELL TWP | 488 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
FLEMINGTON-RARITAN REG | 3,558 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 22 | |
FRANKLIN TWP | 345 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
FRENCHTOWN BORO | 146 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
HAMPTON BORO | 171 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
HIGH BRIDGE BORO | 405 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
HOLLAND TWP | 681 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
HUNTERDON CENTRAL REG | 3,002 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 22 | 49 | |
HUNTERDON CO ED SER COMM | 102 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 22 | |
HUNTERDON CO VOCATIONAL | 197 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
KINGWOOD TWP | 463 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
LAMBERTVILLE CITY | 151 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
LEBANON BORO | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
LEBANON TWP | 833 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
MILFORD BORO | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
N HUNT/VOORHEES REGIONAL | 2,957 | 35 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 58 | |
READINGTON TWP | 2,187 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19 | |
SOUTH HUNTERDON REGIONAL | 345 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 22 | |
STOCKTON BORO | 36 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
TEWKSBURY TWP | 775 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
UNION TWP | 605 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | |
WEST AMWELL TWP | 262 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
County Total | 23,188 | 187 | 47 | 12 | 49 | 292 | |
MERCER | |||||||
EAST WINDSOR REGIONAL | 4,947 | 102 | 15 | 7 | 19 | 140 | |
Emily Fisher CS of Adv. S | 360 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 15 | |
EWING TWP | 3,776 | 54 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 89 | |
Foundation Academy CS | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
HAMILTON TWP | 13,015 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 54 | 78 | |
HOPEWELL VALLEY REGIONAL | 3,984 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 16 | 60 | |
International CS of Trent | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
LAWRENCE TWP | 3,928 | 95 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 108 | |
MERCER CO SPECIAL SERVICE | 738 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 | |
MERCER COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 450 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | |
Pace CS of Hamilton | 110 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Princeton CS | 295 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
PRINCETON REGIONAL | 3,326 | 17 | 18 | 3 | 11 | 48 | |
ROBBINSVILLE | 2,603 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 23 | |
TRENTON CITY | 11,447 | 252 | 37 | 44 | 7 | 330 | |
Trenton Community CS | 618 | 69 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 76 | |
Village CS | 359 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
W WINDSOR-PLAINSBORO REG | 9,669 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 14 | 46 | |
County Total | 59,801 | 700 | 128 | 86 | 154 | 1,048 | |
MIDDLESEX | |||||||
CARTERET BORO | 3,901 | 35 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 49 | |
Central Jersey College Pr | 221 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 34 | |
CRANBURY TWP | 632 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
DUNELLEN BORO | 1,098 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 26 | |
EAST BRUNSWICK TWP | 8,837 | 45 | 18 | 5 | 11 | 77 | |
EDISON TWP | 13,920 | 209 | 43 | 14 | 11 | 276 | |
Greater Brunswick CS | 255 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
HIGHLAND PARK BORO | 1,530 | 4 | 58 | 5 | 3 | 70 | |
JAMESBURG BORO | 630 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | |
METUCHEN BORO | 2,031 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 | |
MIDDLESEX BORO | 2,049 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
MIDDLESEX CO VOCATIONAL | 1,899 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | |
MIDDLESEX REG ED SER COMM | 635 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 25 | |
MILLTOWN BORO | 679 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
MONROE TWP | 5,125 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 34 | |
NEW BRUNSWICK CITY | 6,707 | 186 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 201 | |
NORTH BRUNSWICK TWP | 5,526 | 42 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 57 | |
OLD BRIDGE TWP | 9,648 | 45 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 67 | |
PERTH AMBOY CITY | 9,462 | 31 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 54 | |
PISCATAWAY TWP | 6,979 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 34 | |
SAYREVILLE BORO | 5,772 | 60 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 93 | |
SOUTH AMBOY CITY | 1,118 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 27 | |
SOUTH BRUNSWICK TWP | 8,822 | 32 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 52 | |
SOUTH PLAINFIELD BORO | 3,710 | 15 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 37 | |
SOUTH RIVER BORO | 2,203 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 34 | |
SPOTSWOOD BORO | 1,763 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 21 | |
WOODBRIDGE TWP | 13,359 | 79 | 19 | 9 | 32 | 138 | |
County Total | 118,505 | 1,001 | 264 | 82 | 157 | 1,492 | |
MONMOUTH | |||||||
Academy Charter High Scho | 195 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |
ASBURY PARK CITY | 2,176 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 37 | |
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS BORO | 293 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
AVON BORO | 144 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
BAYSHORE JOINTURE COMM | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
BELMAR BORO | 521 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
BRADLEY BEACH BORO | 264 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
BRIELLE BORO | 712 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
COLTS NECK TWP | 1,370 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
DEAL BORO | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
EATONTOWN BORO | 1,134 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 24 | |
FAIR HAVEN BORO | 1,009 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
FARMINGDALE BORO | 143 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
FREEHOLD BORO | 1,348 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 12 | |
FREEHOLD REGIONAL | 11,703 | 96 | 36 | 14 | 105 | 247 | |
FREEHOLD TWP | 4,607 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
HAZLET TWP | 3,322 | 32 | 41 | 3 | 6 | 82 | |
HENRY HUDSON REGIONAL | 444 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
HIGHLANDS BORO | 179 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
HOLMDEL TWP | 3,385 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | |
Hope Academy CS | 133 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | |
HOWELL TWP | 7,059 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 22 | |
KEANSBURG BORO | 1,854 | 54 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 68 | |
KEYPORT BORO | 1,178 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | |
LITTLE SILVER BORO | 809 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
LONG BRANCH CITY | 4,825 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 15 | |
MANALAPAN-ENGLISHTOWN REG | 5,482 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | |
MANASQUAN BORO | 1,694 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 21 | |
MARLBORO TWP | 6,072 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
MATAWAN-ABERDEEN REGIONAL | 3,750 | 26 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 41 | |
MIDDLETOWN TWP | 10,142 | 187 | 29 | 5 | 96 | 315 | |
MILLSTONE TWP | 1,653 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 15 | |
MONMOUTH BEACH BORO | 322 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
MONMOUTH CO VOCATIONAL | 2,080 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 40 | |
MONMOUTH REGIONAL | 1,141 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 21 | |
MONMOUTH-OCEAN ED SER COM | 90 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 20 | |
NEPTUNE CITY | 387 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
NEPTUNE TWP | 4,432 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 28 | |
OCEAN TWP | 4,232 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 23 | |
OCEANPORT BORO | 719 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
RED BANK BORO | 842 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
RED BANK REGIONAL | 1,116 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 28 | |
ROOSEVELT BORO | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
RUMSON BORO | 976 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
RUMSON-FAIR HAVEN REG | 991 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 19 | |
SEA GIRT BORO | 164 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SHORE REGIONAL | 720 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 19 | |
SHREWSBURY BORO | 499 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SPRING LAKE BORO | 254 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
SPRING LAKE HEIGHTS BORO | 335 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
The Red Bank CS | 159 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
TINTON FALLS | 1,583 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 22 | |
UNION BEACH | 800 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
UPPER FREEHOLD REGIONAL | 2,292 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 30 | |
WALL TWP | 4,269 | 47 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 68 | |
WEST LONG BRANCH BORO | 666 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
County Total | 106,911 | 823 | 220 | 83 | 306 | 1,410 | |
MORRIS | |||||||
BOONTON TOWN | 1,247 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 20 | |
BOONTON TWP | 521 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
BUTLER BORO | 1,220 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 26 | |
CHESTER TWP | 1,429 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
DENVILLE TWP | 1,980 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 30 | |
DOVER TOWN | 2,924 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 24 | |
EAST HANOVER TWP | 1,127 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
EDUC SERV COMM MORRIS CO | 145 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FLORHAM PARK BORO | 1,025 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
HANOVER PARK REGIONAL | 1,500 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 18 | |
HANOVER TWP | 1,575 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
HARDING TOWNSHIP | 321 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
JEFFERSON TWP | 3,614 | 47 | 14 | 1 | 9 | 71 | |
KINNELON BORO | 2,198 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 24 | |
LINCOLN PARK BORO | 914 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | |
LONG HILL TWP | 1,063 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
MADISON BORO | 2,246 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14 | |
MENDHAM BORO | 668 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
MENDHAM TWP | 910 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
MINE HILL TWP | 364 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
MONTVILLE TWP | 4,255 | 18 | 41 | 0 | 9 | 68 | |
MORRIS COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 635 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | |
MORRIS HILLS REGIONAL | 2,709 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 26 | |
MORRIS PLAINS BORO | 614 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MORRIS SCHOOL DISTRICT | 4,672 | 26 | 15 | 4 | 23 | 68 | |
MOUNT ARLINGTON BORO | 390 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
MOUNT OLIVE TWP | 4,904 | 26 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 44 | |
MOUNTAIN LAKES BORO | 1,606 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 14 | |
NETCONG BORO | 296 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
PARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS TWP | 7,210 | 56 | 23 | 3 | 10 | 89 | |
PEQUANNOCK TWP | 2,437 | 44 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 54 | |
RANDOLPH TWP | 5,570 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 31 | |
RIVERDALE BORO | 282 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | |
ROCKAWAY BORO | 640 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
ROCKAWAY TWP | 2,744 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
ROXBURY TWP | 4,415 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 69 | |
SCH DIST OF THE CHATHAMS | 3,582 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 12 | |
Unity CS | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
WASHINGTON TWP | 2,863 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 34 | |
WEST MORRIS REGIONAL | 2,621 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 21 | |
WHARTON BORO | 791 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
County Total | 80,322 | 551 | 164 | 33 | 153 | 889 | |
OCEAN | |||||||
BARNEGAT TWP | 3,272 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | |
BAY HEAD BORO | 92 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
BEACH HAVEN BORO | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
BERKELEY TWP | 1,960 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
BRICK TWP | 10,483 | 157 | 7 | 10 | 23 | 194 | |
CENTRAL REGIONAL | 2,073 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 43 | |
EAGLESWOOD TWP | 142 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
ISLAND HEIGHTS BORO | 110 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
JACKSON TWP | 9,736 | 42 | 25 | 5 | 29 | 101 | |
LACEY TWP | 4,897 | 32 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 47 | |
LAKEHURST BORO | 446 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
LAKEWOOD TWP | 5,459 | 41 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 71 | |
LAVALLETTE BORO | 148 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
LITTLE EGG HARBOR TWP | 1,675 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
LONG BEACH ISLAND | 258 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MANCHESTER TWP | 3,352 | 47 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 63 | |
OCEAN COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 1,140 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | |
OCEAN GATE BORO | 142 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
OCEAN TWP | 543 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
PINELANDS REGIONAL | 1,820 | 51 | 14 | 2 | 21 | 87 | |
PLUMSTED TWP | 1,830 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 20 | |
POINT PLEASANT BEACH BORO | 836 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 14 | |
POINT PLEASANT BORO | 3,158 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 50 | |
SEASIDE HEIGHTS BORO | 207 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
SEASIDE PARK BORO | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SOUTHERN REGIONAL | 3,038 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
STAFFORD TWP | 2,459 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
TOMS RIVER REGIONAL | 17,259 | 96 | 21 | 8 | 78 | 203 | |
TUCKERTON BORO | 287 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
County Total | 76,966 | 576 | 122 | 49 | 210 | 948 | |
PASSAIC | |||||||
BLOOMINGDALE BORO | 630 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
Classical Academy CS of C | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
CLIFTON CITY | 10,524 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 25 | 43 | |
HALEDON BORO | 1,013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
HAWTHORNE BORO | 2,423 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 23 | |
LAKELAND REGIONAL | 1,169 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 34 | |
LITTLE FALLS TWP | 878 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
NORTH HALEDON BORO | 687 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
PASSAIC CITY | 12,398 | 94 | 30 | 19 | 29 | 167 | |
PASSAIC CO ED SERV COMM | 90 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
PASSAIC CO MANCHESTER REG | 775 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
PASSAIC COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 2,802 | 66 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 85 | |
PASSAIC VALLEY REGIONAL | 1,304 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 31 | |
PATERSON CITY | 24,087 | 121 | 53 | 26 | 52 | 243 | |
Paterson CS for Sci/Tech | 523 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
POMPTON LAKES BORO | 1,812 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 24 | |
PROSPECT PARK BORO | 837 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
RINGWOOD BORO | 1,378 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |
TOTOWA BORO | 982 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
WANAQUE BORO | 972 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
WAYNE TWP | 8,778 | 72 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 93 | |
WEST MILFORD TWP | 4,309 | 32 | 29 | 1 | 7 | 63 | |
WEST PATERSON BORO | 1,013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
County Total | 79,484 | 521 | 187 | 61 | 162 | 906 | |
SALEM | |||||||
ALLOWAY TWP | 476 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
ELMER BORO | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
ELSINBORO TWP | 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK | 231 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
MANNINGTON TWP | 171 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
OLDMANS TWP | 213 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
PENNS GRV-CARNEY'S PT REG | 2,455 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 25 | |
PENNSVILLE | 2,050 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 17 | |
PITTSGROVE TWP | 1,876 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 22 | |
QUINTON TWP | 343 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | |
SALEM CITY | 1,425 | 38 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 50 | |
SALEM CO SPECIAL SERVICE | 83 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 | |
SALEM COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 613 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP | 376 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
WOODSTOWN-PILESGROVE REG | 1,647 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 34 | |
County Total | 12,137 | 133 | 21 | 12 | 25 | 191 | |
SOMERSET | |||||||
BEDMINSTER TWP | 600 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
BERNARDS TWP | 5,501 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 11 | 38 | |
BOUND BROOK BORO | 1,505 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 31 | |
BRANCHBURG TWP | 1,897 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN REG | 9,115 | 42 | 21 | 1 | 21 | 85 | |
FRANKLIN TWP | 7,540 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 34 | |
GREEN BROOK TWP | 975 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
HILLSBOROUGH TWP | 7,521 | 32 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 58 | |
MANVILLE BORO | 1,292 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | |
MONTGOMERY TWP | 5,241 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 23 | |
NORTH PLAINFIELD BORO | 3,082 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 35 | |
SOMERSET CO ED SERV COMM | 162 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 16 | |
SOMERSET CO VOCATIONAL | 454 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 24 | |
SOMERSET HILLS REGIONAL | 2,049 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | |
SOMERVILLE BORO | 2,260 | 25 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 38 | |
SOUTH BOUND BROOK | 455 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
WARREN TWP | 2,189 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
WATCHUNG BORO | 686 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
WATCHUNG HILLS REGIONAL | 2,061 | 60 | 58 | 1 | 6 | 125 | |
County Total | 54,582 | 294 | 149 | 35 | 91 | 562 | |
SUSSEX | |||||||
ANDOVER REG | 710 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
BYRAM TWP | 1,160 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
FRANKFORD TWP | 687 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
FRANKLIN BORO | 487 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
FREDON TWP | 346 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
GREEN TWP | 525 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
HAMBURG BORO | 292 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
HAMPTON TWP | 424 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
HARDYSTON TWP | 758 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
HIGH POINT REGIONAL | 1,298 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 40 | |
HOPATCONG | 2,384 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 26 | |
KITTATINNY REGIONAL | 1,185 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | |
LAFAYETTE TWP | 310 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
LENAPE VALLEY REGIONAL | 872 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 24 | |
MONTAGUE TWP | 285 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
NEWTON TOWN | 1,605 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 22 | |
OGDENSBURG BORO | 312 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
SANDYSTON-WALPACK TWP | 176 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SPARTA TWP | 4,046 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 34 | |
STANHOPE BORO | 396 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
STILLWATER TWP | 407 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SUSSEX CO ED SERV COMM | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Sussex County CS for Tech | 100 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
SUSSEX COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 603 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 32 | |
SUSSEX-WANTAGE REGIONAL | 1,632 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
VERNON TWP | 4,648 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 51 | |
WALLKILL VALLEY REGIONAL | 867 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 23 | |
County Total | 26,533 | 172 | 36 | 20 | 86 | 308 | |
UNION | |||||||
BERKELEY HEIGHTS TWP | 2,835 | 7 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 27 | |
Central Jersey Arts CS | 254 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
CLARK TWP | 2,327 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 20 | |
CRANFORD TWP | 3,712 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |
ELIZABETH CITY | 21,303 | 48 | 28 | 27 | 15 | 112 | |
GARWOOD BORO | 413 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
HILLSIDE TWP | 3,161 | 35 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 47 | |
KENILWORTH BORO | 1,354 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | |
LINDEN CITY | 6,122 | 57 | 16 | 13 | 31 | 115 | |
MORRIS-UNION JOINTURE COM | 336 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
MOUNTAINSIDE BORO | 740 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | |
NEW PROVIDENCE BORO | 2,194 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 16 | |
PLAINFIELD CITY | 6,462 | 147 | 48 | 23 | 0 | 218 | |
Queen City Academy CS | 241 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
RAHWAY CITY | 3,872 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | |
ROSELLE BORO | 2,818 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
ROSELLE PARK BORO | 2,013 | 31 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 56 | |
SCOTCH PLAINS-FANWOOD REG | 5,333 | 23 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 41 | |
SPRINGFIELD TWP | 2,049 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 19 | |
SUMMIT CITY | 3,800 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 28 | |
UNION CO ED SERV COMM | 303 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 17 | |
Union County TEAMS CS | 175 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
UNION COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 1,187 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | |
UNION TWP | 7,816 | 81 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 104 | |
WESTFIELD TOWN | 6,150 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 21 | |
WINFIELD TWP | 119 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
County Total | 87,084 | 551 | 214 | 101 | 85 | 935 | |
WARREN | |||||||
ALLAMUCHY TWP | 357 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
ALPHA BORO | 266 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
BELVIDERE TOWN | 933 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17 | |
BLAIRSTOWN TWP | 750 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
FRANKLIN TWP | 348 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FRELINGHUYSEN TWP | 197 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
GREAT MEADOWS REGIONAL | 956 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
GREENWICH TWP | 999 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
HACKETTSTOWN | 1,885 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 31 | |
HARMONY TWP | 307 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
HOPE TWP | 193 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
KNOWLTON TWP | 305 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
LOPATCONG TWP | 894 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
MANSFIELD TWP | 702 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
NORTH WARREN REGIONAL | 1,102 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 55 | |
OXFORD TWP | 300 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
PHILLIPSBURG TOWN | 3,645 | 75 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 104 | |
POHATCONG TWP | 364 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
Ridge and Valley CS | 105 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
WARREN CO SPECIAL SERVICE | 59 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
WARREN COUNTY VOCATIONAL | 446 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
WARREN HILLS REGIONAL | 2,039 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 34 | |
WASHINGTON BORO | 494 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
WASHINGTON TWP | 647 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
WHITE TWP | 420 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
County Total | 18,713 | 219 | 55 | 10 | 38 | 317 | |
State Total | 1,378,613 | 10,998 | 2,997 | 1,164 | 2,763 | 17,666 |
Appendix E: Substance and Weapons Detail, 2005-06 - 2007-08
|
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
2007-08 |
Three-Year Change |
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N |
% |
N |
% |
N |
% |
N |
% |
|
Weapons |
|
|||||||
Handgun |
10 |
0.7% |
11 |
0.8% |
9 |
0.8% |
-1 |
-10% |
Rifle |
1 |
0.1% |
0 |
0.0% |
0 |
0.0% |
-1 |
-100% |
Air Gun |
108 |
7.4% |
74 |
5.3% |
81 |
6.9% |
-27 |
-25% |
Imitation Gun |
97 |
6.6% |
90 |
6.5% |
35 |
3.0% |
-62 |
-64% |
Bomb - Exploded |
0 |
0.0% |
4 |
0.3% |
0 |
0.0% |
0 |
0% |
Bomb - Unexploded |
1 |
0.1% |
3 |
0.2% |
1 |
0.1% |
0 |
0% |
|
|
|
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Knife |
1,052 |
71.9% |
980 |
70.8% |
858 |
72.9% |
-194 |
-18% |
Pin |
30 |
2.1% |
36 |
2.6% |
45 |
3.8% |
15 |
50% |
Chain |
21 |
1.4% |
27 |
1.9% |
36 |
3.1% |
15 |
71% |
Pepper Spray |
21 |
1.4% |
18 |
1.3% |
11 |
0.9% |
-10 |
-48% |
Other |
122 |
8.3% |
142 |
10.3% |
101 |
8.6% |
-21 |
-17% |
Total Weapons (duplicated*) |
1,463 |
100.0% |
1,385 |
100.0% |
1,177 |
100.0% |
-286 |
-20% |
|
|
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Substances |
|
|
||||||
Alcohol |
537 |
19.3% |
496 |
17.6% |
446 |
15.6% |
-91 |
-17% |
Marijuana |
1,794 |
64.5% |
1,809 |
64.1% |
1,886 |
66.1% |
92 |
5% |
Amphetamines |
39 |
1.4% |
30 |
1.1% |
28 |
1.0% |
-11 |
-28% |
Party Drug |
12 |
0.4% |
8 |
0.3% |
9 |
0.3% |
-3 |
-25% |
Cocaine |
122 |
4.4% |
105 |
3.7% |
98 |
3.4% |
-24 |
-20% |
Hallucinogens |
18 |
0.6% |
16 |
0.6% |
14 |
0.5% |
-4 |
-22% |
Narcotics |
51 |
1.8% |
74 |
2.6% |
50 |
1.8% |
-1 |
-2% |
Depressants |
22 |
0.8% |
28 |
1.0% |
40 |
1.4% |
18 |
82% |
Steroids |
0 |
0.0% |
5 |
0.2% |
3 |
0.1% |
3 |
0% |
Prescription Drugs |
110 |
4.0% |
149 |
5.3% |
195 |
6.8% |
85 |
77% |
Inhalants |
4 |
0.1% |
8 |
0.3% |
9 |
0.3% |
5 |
125% |
Drug Paraphernalia |
72 |
2.6% |
93 |
3.3% |
74 |
2.6% |
2 |
3% |
Over-the-counter drug |
|
|
|
|
41 |
1.4% |
|
|
Total Substances (duplicated*) |
2,781 |
100.0% |
2,821 |
100.0% |
2,852 |
100.0% |
71 |
3% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
* More than one type of weapon or substance may be associated with an incident. |