But crime and violence are still increasing. Its a problem that weve investigated for months. Eyewitness News Reporter mark becker poured through the more than 100 page report to break down these new numbers. Alison, this report gets into interesting details. For example, seven guns found in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools in 2014 15. Also 258 School Personnel were reported assaulted. But it also suggests that one of the strategies theyre taking to work with discipline problems here is working. The report addresses crime and punishment in the classroom from just about every angle. Over all the number of crime reports was up 2 last year. Shortterm suspensions, ten days or fewer were up 5 . While longterm suspensions, 11 days or more dropped slightly by 1 . Here at Charlotte Mecklenburg, the number of crime reports rose by 14 . While shortterm suspensions and longterm suspensions more than tripled. Up 318 . And once again, a large percentage of those suspended here and across the state las
Is the freedom to connect like freedom of speech or like the freedom to murder . Today, we remember the pioneering Computer Programmer, social justice activist aaron swartz. At the age of 14, he helped develop rss, revolutionizing how people use the internet. By the time is 19, he co owned reddit, now one of the worlds most popular sites. He is now dead at the age of 26. On friday, he comes out just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for downloading millions of academic articles at mit. His parents the decisions made by prosecutors at mit contributed to his death. Today, we will hear aaron swartz in his own words. If we lost the ability to communicate with each other over the internet, it would be a change of the bill of rights, freedoms our country has been built on would suddenly be deleted. New technology instead of bringing us greater freedom would have snuffed out fundamental rights we had always taken for granted. We will play
Today, we remember the pioneering Computer Programmer, social justice activist aaron swartz. At the age of 14, he helped develop rss, revolutionizing how people use the internet. By the time is 19, he co owned reddit, now one of the worlds most popular sites. He is now dead at the age of 26. On friday, he comes out just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for downloading millions of academic articles at mit. His parents the decisions made by prosecutors at mit contributed to his death. Today, we will hear aaron swartz in his own words. If we lost the ability to communicate with each other over the internet, it would be a change of the bill of rights, freedoms our country has been built on would suddenly be deleted. New technology instead of bringing us greater freedom would have snuffed out fundamental rights we had always taken for granted. We will play a speech aaron that blaster is the the Harvard Law School professor lawrence less
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