{"id":375,"date":"2008-02-21T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/02\/21\/new-bjs-report-on-campus-law-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T17:30:26","slug":"new-bjs-report-on-campus-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/02\/21\/new-bjs-report-on-campus-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"new bjs report on campus law enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/202-campus.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169547607835018850\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/203-campus.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> the bureau of Justice statistics just released a new report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/pub\/pdf\/cle0405.pdf\">campus crime and law enforcement<\/a>. what can be learned from these data? in comparison to the general population, college campuses have a relatively low rate of violent crime (about 62 per 100,000 population on campus, relative to about 466 per 100,000 in the general population). overall, rates of both violence and property crime declined on campus from 1994 to 2004. in both years, crime rates were significantly higher in private than in public schools, with the private campus violent crime rate actually rising over this period. i&#8217;m not sure how to account for this, but i&#8217;d imagine there is great heterogeneity within both the private and the public campus categories.<\/p>\n<p>the report shows that NYU had the largest campus law enforcement agency, but that howard university reported the greatest number of sworn officers (those with full arrest powers granted by a state or local government).<br \/>\n\ufeff<br \/>\n<strong>top-10 campuses ranked by number of full-time law enforcement employees<\/strong><br \/>\n345 New York University<br \/>\n235 University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston<br \/>\n202 Temple University<br \/>\n200 Howard University<br \/>\n194 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey<br \/>\n190 University of Southern California<br \/>\n180 Michigan State University<br \/>\n170 University of Alabama &#8211; Birmingham<br \/>\n156 George Washington University<br \/>\n155 University of Florida<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;d like to see more than the top-10 before drawing any inferences, but east coast universities such as temple and penn appear to hire more sworn officers than universities in the west or midwest. i may end up digging a bit deeper into these data, as there is some talk of expanding campus law enforcement to address <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/and-i-guess-that-was-your-accomplice-in.html\">security concerns<\/a> at the minnversity.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>top-10 campuses ranked by number of sworn officers<br \/>\n<\/strong>166 Howard University<br \/>\n119 Temple University<br \/>\n100 University of Pennsylvania<br \/>\n97 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey<br \/>\n95 George Washington University<br \/>\n86 University of Florida<br \/>\n79 Georgia State University<br \/>\n78 Yale University<br \/>\n76 University of Maryland &#8211; College Park<br \/>\n76 Vanderbilt University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the bureau of Justice statistics just released a new report on campus crime and law enforcement. what can be learned from these data? in comparison to the general population, college campuses have a relatively low rate of violent crime (about 62 per 100,000 population on campus, relative to about 466 per 100,000 in the general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124,452],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-law-enforcement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}