
Campus
Safety at U.S. Colleges: What You Should Know
American college students generally expect to feel secure and protected while living, playing and studying
on campus. Schools are traditi
onally c
onsidered safe havens, and many large campuses offer their own sustainable bubble-like community slightly set off from the outside world. But college campuses are not immune to violence, harassment or even tragedy. From widespread shootings to hushed up sexual assault cases, here’s what you should know about campus
safety in the U.S.
Ed.gov provides open informati
on regarding campus
safety statistics
on its website ope.ed.gov/security. You can choose to look up campus
safety reports for specific states, colleges and even departments or schools within a university, and this report summarizes criminal offenses that were reported at four-year public universities in the U.S. between 2006 and 2008. According to the report, instances of robbery have increased from 2006, but sex offenses, aggravated assault, motor vehicle theft and other violent crimes have decreased. Besides burglary, forcible sex offenses are the most comm
only reported crime reported
on U.S. college campuses: nearly 1,300 in 2008.
On the campuses of private, four-year universities, 1,054 sex offenses were reported in 2008.