Campus Crime Statistics

The University believes a community that is well informed about the nature of its crimes is a safety conscious public. Not only is it your right to know the information included in this document--it is to your advantage to act on it by developing personal routines that enhance your own safety and becoming actively involved in the reporting of crimes and suspicious/unusual activities.

The crime statistics in this document are based on crimes reported to The University of Arizona Police Department, and are in turn reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Washington, D.C.

The Department will accept "third person reports" and follow-up on these cases whenever possible. The report will be appropriately classified by the actual crime category, whenever possible.

Crime does not know the boundaries of an educational institution. The University of Arizona can and does experience the same types of crime as the City of Tucson, fortunately, not in the same proportions, The campus crime rate is much lower than in the city of Tucson. Statistics supporting this conclusion can be found in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports' (UCR) Crime Index, which lists cities, their populations and total number of serious felony crimes reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI-UCR. The UCR can be found in the Government section of the University of Arizona Library, or in most libraries.

The "major crime" problems on the campus continue to be theft and burglary. These are crime of opportunity that in many cases are able to be prevented through simple crime prevention measures.

Statistics

Arrests for Crimes Against People 2005 - 2008