| Motor vehicle traffic control |
|
32.3 |
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| Security enforcement and patrol |
|
37.6 |
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| Maintaining school discipline |
|
26.0 |
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| Coordinating with local police and emergency team(s) |
|
40.3 |
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| Identifying problems in the school and proactively seeking solutions to those problems |
|
35.0 |
|
| |
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|
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| Training teachers and staff in school safety or crime prevention |
|
24.8 |
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| Mentoring students |
|
30.7 |
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| Teaching a law-related education course or training students2 |
|
16.5 |
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| Recording or reporting discipline problems to school authorities |
|
31.7 |
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| Providing information to school authorities about the legal definitions of behavior for recording or reporting purposes3 |
|
32.0 |
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| 1Only schools indicating a sworn law enforcement officer (including School Resource Officers) were present at least once a week were included. |
| 2Examples of law-related education courses include drug-related education, criminal law, or crime prevention courses. |
| 3An example of legal definitions is defining assault for school authorities. |
| NOTE: Responses were provided by the principal or the person most knowledgeable about crime and safety issues at the school. |
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2015–16 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), 2016. |