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Crime Statistics
The University Police Department vigilantly reports all incidents known or reported to UPD. UPD also makes every effort to educate our community on the offenses occuring on campus property and how to prevent crime. To that end, UPD publishes several things to assist the community in understanding crime on campus. It is often difficult to put in perspective how safe one community is versus another. UPD tries to use a system that our community would understand.
Below are three documents to help you understand crime on campus.
1)The first document is a mult-year look at the offenses reported to UPD. These include everything UPD makes reports on, including non-criminal offenses.
2) The second document is a comparison of some Universities which are considered to be peer institutions for WTAMU or well-known larger universities for reference.
3) The third document is a comparison of the cities associated with the Universities in the second document to put into perspective how the area surrounding the campus relates to the area around WTAMU.
Now, a short word about Crime/Population ratio. The ratio is derived by taking the total major crime number for that city/university and dividing it into the population to get a ratio of crime to population. In these charts, the higher the number, the safer the community, theoretically.