The final draft of the Campus Security Act Annual Report 2007 will soon be released as a brochure available to students.
Every year, the IUS Police Department releases a crime report from the previous year.
This report contains all of the statistics concerning crime at IU Southeast. These numbers are compiled from crimes reported to the IUS Police Department and local agencies.
This brochure will be available in the IUS Police Department sometime in November. It’s already available online.
Dennis Simon, IUS Police chief, said they get the report in August, but it takes until October to publish the data. Simon said crime statistics are staying low.
According to the report, there were 36 reported thefts in 2006. That number dropped to 17 reported thefts in 2007.
“We have been outside more and we’ve been more vigilant,” Simon said. “To combat theft, we’re now looking at the people wheeling around media carts to see if they have a nametag.”
In addition to any legal ramifications, if a student is caught committing a crime on campus, they are referred to the office of Student Affairs. The student will meet with a judicial conference officer.
Last year, there were zero incidences of aggravated assault, arson, battery, forgery, hate crimes murder, manslaughter, narcotic violations, sexual offenses or weapons law violations.
Simon said there were no sexual offenses, but one crime was sexually motivated. “We had one exhibitionist showing his penis in public on campus last year,” he said.
Other crimes include nine
incidents of harassment on campus in 2007, which tripled from reported cases in 2006.
The only alcohol violation reported in 2007 was on non-campus property, meaning the violation was for a student off of campus.
With the addition of the residence lodges, the number of alcohol violations this fall have already shot up to nine.
Simon said the IUS Police Department has been combating the additional alcohol violations.
“We’ve restructured our patrols in order to cover campus housing,” Simon said. “We’ve also hired an additional officer, which puts us at 10 officers now.”
There was only one case of burglary in 2007, involving an IUS student off of campus. This is down from two incidents in 2006.
Vandalism, however, dropped from nine incidents in 2006 to only four incidents last year.
There was only one disciplinary referral last year involving alcohol.
Simon said the only problem the IUS Police have is balancing all of their duties.
“We wear many hats,” he said. “We do service work, sell permits and get keys when they’re needed. This hampers us from our primary roles, but we continually try to minimize this effect.”
By JOSEPH DEVER
Staff Writer
jwdever@ius.edu