What percentage of weapons confiscations in American schools were the result of students reporting weapons? What percentage was from school workers being observant? Thank you.
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: AP knows of no collecting or tabulating of data to this level of detail, at least not consistently enough across the tens of thousands of schools in the country to prepare valid compilations of data. There don’t seem to be categories for “snitch” in such statistics.
There have been surveys that sort of touch on this subject. For instance, a report entitled the Students’ Report of School Crime, arising out of the School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Study (NCVS), has information on whether students had witnessed a firearm in school (but there’s no information on whether they reported it):
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/srsc.pdf
I don’t know if local school districts would have this data or be willing to share it, but you can try contacting them. You may have to develop your own research proposal and set up your own survey.