The Metropolitan Police Department received 3,500 reports of crime in D.C. Public Schools — including homicides, sex offenses, robberies and assaults — during 2007-2008, according an Aug. 24 report by The Heritage Foundation and the Lexington Institute. “It’s stunning stuff,” Lexington Institute’s Don Soifer told me.

David B. Muhlhausen, Dan Lips and Soifer received data from MPD through a Freedom of Information Act request. Soifer said 2007-2008 was the most recent full year for which information was available. Not every matter in the incident reports led to charges being filed, but those initial accounts provide a portrait of the school environment.