University to e-mail students crime statistics

Crime awareness on campus and crime prevention go hand-in-hand.

This is a belief that CMU Police Chief Stan Dinius lives by and
because of it, his department will be sending out a campus-wide e-mail
about crime statistics around campus.

The CMU Police Department has displayed the campus crime statistics
on their Web site for the past few years. The campus-wide e-mails began
a few years ago as well and help to keep students and faculty aware of
the number of crimes that take place on CMU’s campus.

“I think e-mailing the crime stats to everyone makes it possible to
deliver the information quickly and economically,” said Community
Policing Officer Janice Klein. “This way, you are sure everyone has
received the information and the opportunity to review the statistics.”

Students should expect and e-mail from CMU Police in late September.

“The statistics are at the press right now and we are just waiting
to get them back so we can e-mail them out,” Dinius said. “It could be
out next week or the week after that.”

The number of criminal investigations, 544, dropped slightly in
2004. The number of criminal investigations has significantly decreased
in the last eight years, beginning back in 1997 when there were 897.

The number of aggravated assaults has continued to stay low, with
only two occurring in 2004.

There were no arsons reported in ’04, compared to three in 2003.
Western Michigan University had four arson violations that took place
in ’03, according to WMU’s police department.

Reported burglaries dropped to five in ’04. There were eight that
took place in ’03.

Criminal sexual conduct violations took the most drastic drop in
2004, with only two incidents being reported. There were 11 reported
accounts in ’03.

Operating while intoxicated citations jumped from 48 in ’03 to 67 in
’04.

The number of drug arrests increased slightly to 18 in ’04. There
were 14 violations the year before. Eastern Michigan University had 23
drug-related arrests on campus in ’03, according to EMU’s police
department.