Notice how there isn't a single hate crime recorded at any of the Claremont Colleges in the last five years. Hear that Student Life? Hear that 5-C administrators?
It's great to see crime down in virtually every single category. Notable exceptions exist, like in forcible sex offenses and aggravated assaults, but that could just as easily reflect the increased willingness to prosecute over minor offenses than actual "attacks."
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Claremont Crime by The Numbers
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The Clery Act numbers, which is what you posted, aren't based on prosecuted offenses. Any crime (within a specific list of crimes) that comes to the attention of CampSec gets reported here, even if no crime report was filed.
That being said, the guidelines for Clery Act are based on federal (I think maybe FBI?) standards, not California Penal Code definitions. So, sometimes stuff gets prosecuted one way (yes, by CPC this is a hate crime, and it goes forward as such) but not reported (because it doesn't fit the different, national standard.)
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