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• Source: The State
• Date: October 01, 2006
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• Bylines: Bill Robinson
• Topics: Education
• Data Types: State Data
• Description/Excerpt: Bill Robinson of The State reviewed five years of South Carolina school crime data to find that "of the most serious crimes in schools, possessing an illegal weapon was the most prevalent, accounting for almost two-thirds of serious crimes." Hampering the analysis was flawed reporting by the schools. Overall crime declined in 2005, but experts doubted that was actually the case. "Lexington-Richland 5, which had a district enrollment of 15,901 students in 2004-05, shows zeros in all seven serious crime categories for that academic year."