Colorado Mesa University (CMU) has released the Annual Campus Security Report for 2018 detailing information about crime on and near the Main Campus, the Montrose Campus and Western Colorado Community College (WCCC).
The Jeanne Clery Act, previously known as the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990, requires universities to release this information. Statistics regarding crimes from 2016, 2017 and 2018 are available on the university website here. The statistics are broken down below.
Campus Property is defined by The Handbook for Campus Security and Security Reporting (Handbook) as: any building or property owned or controlled by an institution within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area and used by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to, the institution’s educational purposes, including residence halls.
Non-campus Building or Property is defined by the Handbook as: any building or property owned or controlled by a student organization that is officially recognized by the institution; or any building or property owned or controlled by an institution that is used in direct support of, or in relation to, the institution’s educational purposes, is frequently used by students and is not within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area on the institution.
Public Property is defined by the Handbook as: all public property, including thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks and parking facilities, that is within the campus, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus.
There were five Forcible Sex Offenses classified as rape in 2018 on Main Campus property. This was up from the four reported rape offenses in 2017 and three in 2016.
Forcible Sex Offenses defined by the Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook (UCRH) are: any sexual act directed against another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent.
There were two instances of Forcible Sex Offenses classified as ‘Fondling’ in 2018 on Main Campus property, zero in 2017 and one in 2016.
There were 29 Drug Violations on the Main Campus resulting in arrests in 2018, down from 59 in 2017 and 98 in 2016.
Drug Violations according to the UCRH are: Violations of state and local laws relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing and making of narcotic drugs.
Liquor Law Violations on the Main Campus resulting in arrests numbered five in 2018, down from 10 in 2017 and 27 in 2016.
Liquor Law Violations are constituted as: the manufacture, sale, transporting, furnishing, possessing of intoxicating liquor; maintaining unlawful drinking places; bootlegging; operating a still; furnishing liquor to minor or intemperate person; using a vehicle for illegal transportation of liquor; drinking on a train or public conveyance.
Disciplinary Referrals resulting from Liquor Law Violations and Drug Violations were in much larger numbers than arrests. On Main Campus property, referrals from liquor numbered 240 in 2018, 204 in 2017 and 213 in 2016. Disciplinary Referrals from drugs numbered 36 in 2018, 42 in 2017 and 28 in 2016.
There were five reports of Domestic Violence on Main Campus property in 2018, up from three in both 2017 and 2018.
Domestic Violence, as defined by the UCRH, includes: felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction receiving grant monies, or by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction.
There were two instances of burglary on Main Campus property in 2018, down from five in 2017 and three in 2016.
Burglary is defined by the UCRH as: the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft. For reporting purposes this definition includes: unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or felony; breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking; safecracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.
There were no Main Campus hate crimes reported in 2018, 2017 and 2016. No Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Motor Vehicle Theft, Arson, Murder, Negligent and Non-Negligent Manslaughter, Non-Forcible Incest and Non-Forcible Statutory Rape were reported on the Main CMU campus in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
There was a single instance of Aggravated Assault on non-campus buildings or property in 2016, and one robbery on public property in 2017. There was one arrest for Illegal Weapons on main campus property in 2016, defined by the UCRH as: the violation of laws or ordinances dealing with weapon offenses, regulatory in nature, such as: manufacture, sale, or possession of deadly weapons; carrying deadly weapons, concealed or openly; furnishing deadly weapons to minors; aliens possessing deadly weapons; all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.
There were zero instances of arrests, disciplinary referrals and criminal offenses on the Montrose campus for 2016, 2017 and 2018. One Aggravated Assault occurred on public property in 2018, one Motor Vehicle Theft occurred on public property in 2016 and two Drug Violation arrests happened in 2016. No hate crimes were reported for 2016, 2017 and 2018.
There were zero instances of arrests, disciplinary referrals and criminal offenses on the WCCC campus or public property for 2016, 2017 and 2018. No hate crimes were reported for 2016, 2017 and 2018.
