While we do our very best to bring you the very latest each and every week about crime around the district and here on the GW campus, it is difficult to put those statistics into an annual perspective.
In compliance with the Cleary Act of 1990, which requires universities receiving federal aid to disclose information about crime on and around campus, the GW University Police Department has released its annual report to the public.
While the materials outline such items as the department's setup and protocol, including training, reporting procedures and maintanance of campus facilities, it is the annual crime statistics that drive interest among the administration, who want to ensure a safer community and university.
WRGW can happily report, taking a look at the numbers from 2005 and 2006, that GW is, in fact, becoming a safer one.
While the 55 page report does cite a slight increase in the number of burglaries on campus property, the number of sex offenses, assaults, liquor and drug crimes has decreased significantly since 2005. But one of the most promising numbers involves larceny, down 147 reported to UPD last year, from a high of 446 in 2005. Neither hate crimes nor cases of homicide have been reported to University Police for the last three years.
The Department of Education moniotrs university compliance; civil penalties of nearly 30,000 dollars can be imposed per violation. The federal act was passed in memory of Jeanne Cleary, a 19-year old freshman at Lehigh University who was raped and murdered in her residence hall in 1986.
To emphasize, this year's report contains numbers from 2006; the numbers for 2007 will be available next Fall.
And to obtain a copy of the annual compliance report, you can stop by UPD headquarters, located at 2033 G Street.
In compliance with the Cleary Act of 1990, which requires universities receiving federal aid to disclose information about crime on and around campus, the GW University Police Department has released its annual report to the public.
While the materials outline such items as the department's setup and protocol, including training, reporting procedures and maintanance of campus facilities, it is the annual crime statistics that drive interest among the administration, who want to ensure a safer community and university.
WRGW can happily report, taking a look at the numbers from 2005 and 2006, that GW is, in fact, becoming a safer one.
While the 55 page report does cite a slight increase in the number of burglaries on campus property, the number of sex offenses, assaults, liquor and drug crimes has decreased significantly since 2005. But one of the most promising numbers involves larceny, down 147 reported to UPD last year, from a high of 446 in 2005. Neither hate crimes nor cases of homicide have been reported to University Police for the last three years.
The Department of Education moniotrs university compliance; civil penalties of nearly 30,000 dollars can be imposed per violation. The federal act was passed in memory of Jeanne Cleary, a 19-year old freshman at Lehigh University who was raped and murdered in her residence hall in 1986.
To emphasize, this year's report contains numbers from 2006; the numbers for 2007 will be available next Fall.
And to obtain a copy of the annual compliance report, you can stop by UPD headquarters, located at 2033 G Street.
- Jared Pliner
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