The capturing at Williamsburg Charter Excessive Faculty that wounded two college students and an grownup Wednesday follows a sequence of violent incidents simply exterior metropolis campuses and a rise in the variety of weapons discovered in schools.
Up to now this faculty 12 months, there have been 2,984 weapons discovered at metropolis schools, in line with the NYPD, together with eight weapons, 168 Tasers or stun weapons and 1,192 knives. For the complete earlier faculty 12 months there have been 2,554 weapons discovered, together with 12 weapons and 1,104 knives.
Based on the preliminary Mayor’s Administration Report, there have been 346 main felonies in the 2021-22 tutorial 12 months, in comparison with 288 in the 2019-20 tutorial 12 months, which was disrupted by the COVID-19 lockdown in March of that 12 months.
An schooling division spokesman argued on Twitter that the division had made progress preventing crime at schools when evaluating statistics from the final full pre-pandemic faculty 12 months. The NYPD defines main felonies as homicide, rape, theft, felony assault, housebreaking, grand larceny and grand larceny of a motorized vehicle.
“It’s just heart-wrenching what is happening. And we’re working really hard to try to get in front of this and figure Schools Chancellor David Banks has said, adding that it’s “the issue that keeps me up at night.”
College students say they’re extra petrified of their security on the best way to and from faculty than they’re inside faculty partitions, in line with Banks.
Latest violence close by schools embrace a 13-year-old boy charged with capturing and wounding two different teenagers close to Campus Magnet Excessive Faculty in Queens final month, in addition to a 17-year-old boy chased and stabbed to dying after leaving Liberation Excessive Faculty in Coney Island.
Final 12 months, a capturing in the South Bronx killed a 16-year-old woman, Angellyh Yambo, and wounded two others. The victims have been strolling dwelling from their highschool.
The capturing at Williamsburg Charter Excessive was the second close to the varsity in simply three months. In December, a 15-year-old boy allegedly shot a teen woman in the leg exterior the varsity, sending college students working for canopy – although the principal claimed in a letter to folks the bang was attributable to a automobile, in line with the Every day Information.