TBI School Crime Study

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation recently released two new studies detailing the volume and nature of crime on school campuses and crime identified as having a domestic violence nexus.Both studies utilize data from the Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System (TIBRS).From 2019 to 2021, 22,855 crimes were reported by the state’s law enforcement agencies with a location code of ‘School-Elementary/Secondary.’The overall number of reported offenses decreased 16.43%, from 2019 to 2021.