Safety at Yale - New Haven

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Colleges need to, by law (Clery Act), report crime statistics to the US Dept of Ed. This is the link to that site so that people can see the stats for themselves.</p>

<p>[Campus</a> Safety and Security Tool](<a href=“Campus Safety and Security”>Campus Safety and Security)</p>

<p>Data (2010) for Yale and some other top schools’ main campuses:</p>

<p>Yale: on-campus crimes - 44, non-campus crimes - 7, public property crimes - 17
Princeton: on-campus crimes - 53, non-campus crimes - 6, public property crimes - 0
Harvard: on-campus crimes - 86, non-campus crimes (no data available), public property crimes - 72
MIT: on-campus crimes - 29, non-campus crimes - 5, public property crimes - 12</p>

<p>The crimes cover robbery, burglary, sex offenses, aggravated assault, vehicle theft, arson.</p>

<p>Observations:

  1. While Princeton’s campus had no robberies, its numbers were greater than Yale’s in the burglary, vehicle theft, forcible sex offense, and arson categories.
  2. The relative sizes of the campus populations should be taken into account to do a rigorous comparison. These are just the raw numbers. (P: 7,600 (2 campuses), Y: 11,600, M: 10,400, H: 27,700 (2 campuses))</p>