Calling the Cops

An EdSource investigation into policing in California schools

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911 Call (1920) Alarm (2824) Animal (226) Disturbance (1634) Drill (487) Fire (148) Harassment (131) Incorrigible Juvenile (395) Lockdown (17) Medical (867) Mental Health (577) Missing Person (319) Other (5530) Patrol (14130) Physical Violence (1354) Police Communications (394) Sex (342) Substances (1237) Suspicion (986) Theft (755) Threats (716) Trespassing (589) Truancy (124) Unknown (6088) Vandalism (303) Vehicle (3081) Weapons (445) Welfare Check (346)

Overview

From entire sample of counties, school districts and schools in the database.

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45965
Incidents reported
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164
Police Departments
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852
Schools
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192
School Districts
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57
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Police call logs are from a sampling of schools representing California for the period Jan. 1 to June 30, 2023. The database does not include all schools or districts.

Incident Breakdown

Incident Logs

displaying 24576 - 24600 records in total 45965
Serious Non-Violent

Burglary — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

459 - BURGLARY Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

5/16/23 at 12:17:36 PM

Incident details:

SEE ATTACHED EMAIL - We had kids on campus around 9 pm on Saturday night. This is the second weekend in a row. The mechanical room was unsecured, so they did enter that room.- TRYING TO REACH SCHOOL SITE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. - MADE CTC W/ THE SCHOOL, PER SUE - LORD IS AWARE HOWEVER BENITEZ IS HANDLING AND IS OUT OF OFFICE TODAY. WILL WAIT TO HEAR BACK FROM BENITEZ. RESPONDED TO HER EMAIL - PER BENITEZ -NEGATIVE DAMAGE TO REPORT, ONLY WANTED TO GIVE THE PD A HEADS UP.
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Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

TC - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT DROP OFF Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

5/18/23 at 8:28:52 AM

Serious Non-Violent

Abandoned Child — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

NOTIF - NOTIFICATION Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

5/22/23 at 4:44:39 PM

Incident details:

PER 95S1, STUDENT AT SCHOOL NOT PICKED UP CANT GET IN CTC WITH PARENTS, REQ KNOCK AND TALK - NO ANSWER ON MOM CELL - PER ARIES UNDER MOTHERS CTC INFO - BROTHER THAT ATTENDS GHHS IS HOME, MOTHER IS NOT REACHABLE, IS NOT GETTING OFF WORK UNTIL LATER, WILL GO TO SCHOOL AND PICK UP STUDENT TO BRING HER HOME
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Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

TC - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT DROP OFF Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

5/23/23 at 8:31:23 AM

Serious

Custody Issue — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

CIVIL - CIVIL PROBLEM Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

5/24/23 at 11:49:30 AM

Incident details:

REQUESTING AN OFFICER FOR CUSTODY ISSUE / MOTHER IN THE OFFICE TRYING TO PICK UP STUDENT, PER SCHOOL PAPERWORK DAD HAS CUSTODY, SCHOOL CAN'T REACH DAD / MOTHER HAS NEW PAPERS AND IS ALSO RECORDING - SUE CHECKING ETA, FEMALE STILL 97 AND STILL RECORDING - Mother of juvs have Ed rights and requested school does that will be mailed to her address. Mother has visitation rights per court docs, and only requested to see juv during lunch break for a few minuts without pulling juv from school. Mother was allotted to visit with juy in the front office break room while officers monitored. Juve went back to class and mother left school without incident.
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Serious Non-Violent

Abandoned Child — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

NOTIF - NOTIFICATION Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

5/31/23 at 1:42:46 PM

Incident details:

STUDENT NOT PICKED UP / UNABLE TO CTC PARENTS / REQ OFFICER TO RESIDENT TO NOTIFY AT RESD - CTC'D MOTHER VIA 21, WILL BE ENR FOR STUDENT
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Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

TC - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT DROP OFF Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/1/23 at 7:38:46 AM

Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

DIS - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT DISMISSAL Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/1/23 at 12:15:34 PM

Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

TC - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT DROP OFF Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/2/23 at 7:46:22 AM

Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

DIS - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT DISMISSAL Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/2/23 at 11:53:54 AM

Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

TC - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT DROP OFF Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/5/23 at 7:54:47 AM

Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

TC - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT DROP OFF Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/6/23 at 7:26:29 AM

Serious Non-Violent

Car Accident - Non-Injury — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

1182 - NON INJURY ACCIDENT Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/7/23 at 8:12:48 AM

Incident details:

TC OCCURED YESTERDAY, PER RP PERSON INV WAS GOING TO LEAVE A NOTE - NOTE LEFT, SUE IS REQ 28 FOR ALL CALL - ADV'D UNABLE TO RUN, WILL DO ALL CALL FOR GRY TOTY - PER SUE, ADMIN ADV'D IF PTY WHO GOT HIT QUESTIONS IT, TO ADV THEN, NFI
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Extra Check / Patrol — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

XPAT - EXTRA PATROL Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/8/23 at 7:59:26 AM

Extra Check / Patrol — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

XPAT - EXTRA PATROL Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/15/23 at 7:42:29 AM

Extra Check / Patrol — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

XPAT - EXTRA PATROL Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/23/23 at 7:38:09 AM

Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Sycamore Rocks Elementary School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

DIS - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT DISMISSAL Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

6/23/23 at 11:52:38 AM

Follow Up — Vanguard Preparatory School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

FU - FOLLOW UP Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

1/17/23 at 8:24:15 AM

Incident details:

GO TO SCHOOL AND COUNCEL SPOKE TO MOTHER, STUDENTS ARE YOA, 95P3 ADV'D MOTHER SHE WOULD STUDENTS BY
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Serious

Suspicious Vehicle — Vanguard Preparatory School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

SUSVEH - SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

1/20/23 at 8:10:32 AM

Incident details:

VEH PARKED IN FRONT OF SCHOOL, EITHER SLEEPING OR PASSED OUT BY - PTY WAITING FOR PRESCHOOL, PTY WAS SLEEPING
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911 - Unknown — Vanguard Preparatory School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

911FU - 911 FOLLOW UP Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

1/20/23 at 1:38:18 PM

Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Vanguard Preparatory School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

TC - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT ARRIVALS Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

1/23/23 at 7:47:38 AM

Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Stop — Vanguard Preparatory School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

T - TRAFFIC STOP Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

1/23/23 at 8:01:03 AM

Incident details:

PARKING LOT
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Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Vanguard Preparatory School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

TC - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT ARRIVALS Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

1/26/23 at 7:57:06 AM

Serious Non-Violent

Traffic Control / Complaint — Vanguard Preparatory School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

TC - TRAFFIC CONTROL AT ARRIVALS Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

1/27/23 at 7:57:34 AM

Not Serious Non-Violent

False Alarm — Vanguard Preparatory School

Apple Valley Unified School District, San Bernardino County

ALARM - ALARM MISC Reported to Apple Valley Unified Police Department

1/30/23 at 6:32:35 AM

Incident details:

MPR KITCHEN MOTION, C3 MOTION, C5 MOTION - STAFF IS IN THE KITCHEN
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