“The way Clery works a series of events, you have to count those as individual events. During the holidays last year, one of the dorms was burglarized, and several dorm units were hit,” Moore said. “Even though it was one part of a criminal episode, each room that was violated is considered an individual act. The way that Clery counts, 30 of those events are a cause of that one break-in.”
Motor vehicle theft rose from 14 to 22, according to the report.
Davis said student and officer engagement is key to keeping campus safe.
“What we’re trying to do is break down the communications barrier. Basically there are 40,000 students and only 50 police officers,” Davis said. “So obviously, what you all see here on campus is much more than what a police report can. Most people don’t feel warm and fuzzy talking to someone in uniform.”
On college campuses, the little crimes, which many don’t notice, lead to larger crimes, Davis said.
“What is more important is the crime that doesn’t get reported. You’re at the library, and you leave your books on the table; you get up and come back, and your books are gone,” Davis said. “You don’t tell us.”
“We need to find out where the small things are so it’s easier to stop them before they get out of hand.”
On-campus burglaries have increased by more than 500 percent… That’s a lot. http://t.co/4my5FuUT
RT @TheDailyCougar: On-campus burglaries have increased by more than 500 percent… That’s a lot. http://t.co/4my5FuUT
UH releases its annual crime report, burglaries rise by more than 500 percent – http://t.co/6PC6iL0o
RT @TheDailyCougar: On-campus burglaries have increased by more than 500 percent… That’s a lot. http://t.co/4my5FuUT
I’m all for gentrification of Third ward but expect ALOT more crimes in the next few years as metrorail gets completed and developers come licking their chops.
Wouldn’t gentrification reduce crimes? Every “held at gunpoint” robbery to date on the streets bordering campus are the acts of thugs from the surrounding poverty-stricken neighborhoods.
Lol. Wow, so can you please point out what exactly is the connection to having Metrorail completed and “ALOT more crimes”. Please englighten me. I’m really curious about this causation.
Crime will continue to increase as long as the ghetto that is 3rd Ward continues to stand. Get rid of 3rd Ward, end METRO, and close down TSU and problems will be solved.
Also, students should be allowed to carry weapons in their cars to protect themselves against thugs. If I was armed, I bet whatever creep decided to rob me, will end up with a grapefruit size hole in their head!
Wow! This “so-called” vice president clearly needs to be replaced with someone who will own up to the increase of crimes and be a proactive leader to putting a stop to it. Instead, what does he do? He blames the students for not reporting the petty crimes that are leading to these larger scale crimes!!!!! WHAT?!??!!??? How can he claim that these minor thefts are occurring if they aren’t reported? He is attempting to place the blame on us students to cover his own inadequacy. If we want to accomplish all of our tier one goals, then it is imperative that we only hire tier one quality faculty…
I wonder how many of those sexual assault reports actually led to arrests. And I wonder how many led to convictions. Considering the way they shoved my case under the rug and left my rapist free to rape more women, I’d be willing to bet those numbers are close to, if not zero.