UCLA Report: Better School Environment May Reduce Weapon-Carrying

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Fostering supportive environments at secondary schools plays a key role in reducing the presence of weapons and creating safe campuses, according to a report released Wednesday by UCLA.

In 3.3% of California secondary schools, more than 15% of students reported carrying a weapon, and in 5.8% of the schools, at least 15% of students said they had been injured by or threatened with a weapon, according to “School- and Student-Level Prevalence and Predictors of Weapon-Related Behaviors and Experiences Among Secondary Schools in California.”

The report was based on surveys of about 890,000 California students in seventh, ninth and 11th grades and focuses on all types of weapons.

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