Today’s entry: Brian, I read that the Runcie indictment involved the underreporting of crimes in schools. This was something frequently discussed after the attack in Parkland but never seemed to be resolved. I’ve started to wonder if A) this isn’t isolated to Broward schools and B) if it happens in other instances outside of schools. It seems to me there’s a general interest in lower crime rates by most public officials. Bottom Line: You raise a good and interesting points. First though, about what we know regarding the indictment of Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie. Not much. We know it’s a perjury charge in a near two-year grand jury investigation and we know the allegation is regarding one of the four areas being investigated by the grand jury. We don’t know much beyond that. The three-page indictment filed with the Florida Supreme Court is publicly available but is mostly redacted. One of the four areas of investigation is whether school officials underreported crimes committed at schools and if they are continuing to do so in violation of state law. It’s widely believed that this is the most likely to apply to Runcie based on previous findings of Broward’s reporting revealed by the Sun-Sentinel and the Stoneman Douglas Commission. They found this to be an issue in Broward, and the lax policy was at the root of the handling/transferring of Stoneman Douglas attacker Nikolas Cruz. Underreporting of crime does likely apply beyond Broward’s school’s.