dr. marisa randazzo. she's with sigma threat management associates and the hi former chief research psychologist for the u.s. secret service. also with us is tom snyder who t is with the national center for education statistics.h tom snyder, what is that on at organization? >> the centerl le collects data education at all levels starting from pre-primary education through higher education. today we'll be talking about kn some of thesa findings we have from our annual report on indicators of school crime and safety. so the news opens up with some positive things about a decline in school crime.ol so overall if we look at a long period of time we have a decline in school crime this is reported by teens and what we see is thar 20 years ago in 1992 we had 181a crimes per thousand students and it's down to 55 now. >> how do you define a crime? how do you define violence in schools? are we talking about shootings? bullying? >> primarily we're talking about fights. a lot of thefts, these would be. things that mi

dr. randazzo, i want to look at this chart. about half of frequently bullied students never told an adult. >> and this is perhaps the areas of greatest concern about those students who were bullied, somea of the ones bullied everyday or once a week, they haven't told e an adult.. that's what we're getting to here and talk about the importance of notifying perhaps more than one person or at least one adult. mar likely school personnel as well as parents. >> and that's the second time a parent of a female middle schooler has called in. dr. randazzo? your response? >> ias think that can be part o it, too. as many advances as we've seen schools make across the country and taking a better stance t the against bullying we still have individual administrators here and there who don't see it quite the same way and who often made the fault, well, it's two girls it can't be that bad. the truth is it can be very, very bad. especially for the girl who's tn feeling victimized.ca i want to say tote a the caller think her daughter has a wonde

dr. randazzo, do you have a cause and effect relationship? >> i have speculation.t data appreciate tom's perspective because i think it's appropriate when we look at data. we never know exactly unless i we've done a controlled study what the cause and effect is here. but i think what we've seen ove the past decades, 15 years, is s greater awareness and attention to the issues of what's going on in our schools beyond the missi educational mission.that. there's been policy debate around the educational mission l but at the same time recognizinp schools are small communities for students that affect the es. of life for the students and the employees alike. unfortunately it's taken the ta mass tragedies of school shootings to raise that awareness but because we're there now schools generally are taking a more active and proactive approach to looking at their climate, at their school security procedures and how they interact with their students and treat their employees and i believe it's because of those collective efforts that we are w seeing a