Kids as young as 5 were arrested at schools 2,600 times. Search our database to see where it's happening.
Paste BN examined two decades of FBI data to find arrests of children age 5-9 in schools. Now you can review the data for yourself.
The data come from the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System, and many law enforcement agencies do not participate. If your local police department does not appear, it either made zero arrests of young children or didn't contribute data.
Search child arrests 2000-2019
Names are not included in the public version of the FBI's database, but other personal characteristics are. The FBI records whether an arrest was at a school, although no school name is provided. Reporters selected only daytime arrests.
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The news network turned to FBI records to count these youngest of students, for whom the long-term effects of early interaction with law enforcement have not been well studied, because the U.S. Department of Education doesn't track school arrests by age.
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To learn which police agencies in your area contributed data to the FBI, check the search tool below. You'll see how many years each agency provided data and how many 5- to 9-year-olds in schools were reported during those years. If the number of arrests is zero, the police agency supplied at least one year of data and reported no arrests. "N/A" means an agency didn't participate in the FBI data program any time from 2000 to 2019.