Before University of Illinois students were sent home in mid-March due to coronavirus, there were at least 183 crimes in Champaign-Urbana reported directly to university police since January 1 — mostly underage drinking and theft. After March 21, the total number of crimes reported decreased, with 52 crimes directly reported…

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Reported crimes on the University’s campus decreased by 58 percent compared to last year, according to Brown’s Department of Public Safety crime report, which was reviewed by The Herald. DPS has also seen a 54 percent decrease in reported crimes for September alone, compared to last year.   Because DPS only…

Good morning. Once again, people across the country and in California are shocked and upset about violence against people of Asian descent — this time because of killings in Georgia. On Tuesday night, a gunman opened fire at three spas in the Atlanta area, killing eight people. The police said…

LANSING — Michigan Tech University students urging school officials to take a stronger stance against racism are sounding alarms over a white supremacist group’s recruitment efforts on campus. After months of debate about institutional racism in the predominantly white university, stickers for the Patriot Front, a rapidly growing hate group, began…

Add one more to the list of threats parents need to worry about from the ongoing health crisis. With youngsters spending more time online, experts say, criminals who prey on children have found new opportunities. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, reports of child exploitation rose…

BATON ROUGE – While lawmakers met at the Capitol Thursday to discuss LSU’s repeated Title IX compliance failures, Gov. John Bel Edwards was a few floors above, being quizzed on the same topic during his weekly news conference. Edwards previously said he was “mortified” when he read the Husch Blackwell…

Last year, 233 criminal incidents occurred on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus according to the 2019 annual security and fire report, mandated by the federal crime reporting law for colleges known as the Clery Act.  But the university’s daily crime log routinely reports many more incidents.  For example,…

There’s no denying that during the last five years the United States has experienced a rise in hate crimes—an increase confirmed by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data collection, media reporting, and independent scholarship. According to Frank Pezzella, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and a scholar of hate…