Numbers on Arrests at MMSD School

Document Feed on the Isthmus web site has posted Jason Shepard's recent column and data supplied by the school district:

Police and schools: By the numbers
Spreadsheets compiled from raw data showing police calls and arrests at Madison schools, 2004-2005

In the 2004-05 school year, police were summoned to Madison schools more than 1,500 times and made nearly 400 arrests, mostly of students. Recently Isthmus writer Jason Shepard went through raw data of police reports to compile spreadsheets of police calls and arrests, arranged by school. One resulting finding -- that students of color account for a sharply disproportionate percentage of arrests -- has stirred particular concern, a topic explored in Shepard's column for the Oct. 21 edition of Isthmus. Included here is that column and three spreadsheets that provide cumulative data.

http://www.isthmus.com/features/docfeed/docs/document.php?intdocid=154

Posted by Lucy Mathiak at October 22, 2005 8:34 AM
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