Model for School Safety Planning: Assessing the Accomplishments of Two Brooklyn Neighborhoods in the First Year

• NCJ Number: 193198
• Author(s): Melorra Sochet
• Date Published: 2001
• Length: 18 pages
• Sale Source: Vera Institute of Justice; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Program Description (Model)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Downloaded February 22, 2002

Annotation

This document describes and evaluates a model for school safety planning.

Abstract

Since March 2000 two communities in Brooklyn, each consisting of a high school, two feeder middle schools, and a police precinct, have participated in an experiment testing a communitywide approach to school safety. Meeting monthly, police officers, safety agents, teachers, administrators, and parents have identified safety problems and developed solutions. In less than 1 year, the two communities have: (1) designed and implemented a safe corridor for students traveling to and from school; (2) designed and implemented a communications system that transmits among schools information about safety incidents; (3) begun working with the local community board to address dangerous traffic congestion around schools; (4) begun trying to improve relations between school safety agents and teachers; and (5) begun to share examples of recent safety incidents and suggested responses. This year the groups plan to address truancy, gang activity, cutting class, and the needs of youngsters at risk for violence or delinquency. Notes