Schools fail to report all crime

An investigation by the Charlotte Observer has found that a lot more violent and threatening behavior takes place in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools than officials disclose in the state's public report on crime. Observer reporters Lisa Hammersly Munn, Liz Chandler, Melissa Manware and Peter Smolowitz, along with database reporter Adam Bell, used school and police records and databases to reveal thousands of incidents of crime, violence and threatening acts that the state doesn't require for its report and that
aren't disclosed to parents. Also, the newspaper found that CMS failed to
disclose some crimes the state report requires. The investigation includes a downloadable school violence report and school violence charts.