3,200: Number of school safety personnel when NYPD took over school security in 1998

4,800+: Number of School Security Agents (SSAs) in New York’s public schools as of 2005

200: Number of armed police officers in New York high schools

5: Ranking of the NYPD’s school security force compared to other police forces in the United States

93,000: Number of predominantly Black and Latino New York public school students who have to pass through metal detectors on a daily basis to enter school

88: Number of New York high schools and middle schools where students have to go through metal detectors on a daily basis to enter school

82: Percentage of Black and Latino students at high schools with permanent metal detectors

71: Percentage of Black and Latino students enrolled at high schools citywide

$11,282: Average annual funding per pupil at high schools citywide

$9,601: Average annual funding per pupil at high schools with permanent metal detectors

$8,066: Average annual funding per pupil at high schools with more than 3,000 students and permanent metal detectors

80: Percentage of the state’s prison population that consists of Blacks and Latinos from 10 New York City neighborhoods

Sources: Criminalizing the Classroom, March 2007, nyclu.org; New York Civil Liberties Union press conference, October 2007; Community Service Society, cssny.org.