| Motor vehicle traffic control |
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20.9 |
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| Security enforcement and patrol |
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24.1 |
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| Maintaining school discipline |
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15.5 |
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| Coordinating with local police and emergency team(s) |
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26.2 |
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| Identifying problems in the school and proactively seeking solutions to those problems |
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22.7 |
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| Training teachers and staff in school safety or crime prevention |
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16.2 |
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| Mentoring students |
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21.3 |
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| Teaching a law-related education course or training students2 |
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11.1 |
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| Recording or reporting discipline problems to school authorities |
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17.9 |
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| Providing information to school authorities about the legal definitions of behavior for recording or reporting purposes3 |
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17.5 |
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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: Primary schools are defined as schools in which the lowest grade is not higher than grade 3 and the highest grade is not higher than grade 8. 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. |