What data are available regarding the incidence of crime on and around campus?
Violent crime (murder, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault and battery) has been relatively unchanged from 2004–2006 in the patrol area of the University of Chicago Police Department, which includes 39th to 61st streets and Cottage Grove to Lake Shore Drive. However, violent crime during that three-year period has decreased in Hyde Park-South Kenwood and increased in Woodlawn. More detailed crime statistics: • UCPD Daily Incident Reports • Hyde Park-South Kenwood Violent Crimes • Historical Data • Common Sense, the University’s guide to safe urban living • EveryBlock.
How can parents and family members of current students stay informed? What is the University doing to address the underlying issues of poverty and unequal opportunity that contribute to crime in the community? What is being done to celebrate the life of Amadou Cisse? An obituary including recollections of Cisse’s friends and colleagues was distributed to the news media and posted on our website at http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/07/071119.cisse.shtml. Student leaders organized a candlelight vigil on Tuesday, November 20, and his family invited community members to a prayer service on Wednesday, November 21. The University community also is organizing a memorial service and the details will be announced as soon as they are finalized. Cisse was scheduled to receive his Ph.D. degree in chemistry at Convocation on December 7, and his degree will be awarded posthumously. Where can members of the University community find support services? When a tragedy like this happens in our commun
