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Crime Statistics

The crime statistics shown in the following table covers reported crimes on the ULM campus over the last three calendar years: 2018, 2017, and 2016. Crime statistics shown are for the year in which they are reported and not necessarily in the year they occurred. Reported crimes may involve individuals not associated with the University of Louisiana Monroe.

The statistics listed below may differ from previous publications of this data from year to year. These differences may be due to revised reporting requirements and updates to the Higher Education Opportunity Act and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.

 

OFFENSE YEAR ON-CAMPUS
PROPERTY
ON-CAMPUS
STUDENT

HOUSING
FACILITIES
NON-CAMPUS
PROPERTY
PUBLIC
PROPERTY
Crime Statistics Source: University of Louisiana Monroe Police Department
MURDER/NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER 2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 0 0 0 0
NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER 2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 0 0 0 0
SEX OFFENSE, TOTAL 2019 2 2 0 0
2020 3 2 0 0
2021 4 3 0 0
RAPE* 2019 2 2 0 0
2020 1 1 0 0
2021 3 3 0 0
FONDLING* 2019 0 0 0 0
2020 2 1 0 0
2021 1 0 0 0
INCEST* 2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 0 0 0 0
STATUTORY RAPE* 2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 0 0 0 0
ROBBERY 2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 0 0 0 0
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT 2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 0 0 0 0
BURGLARY 2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 2 1 0 0
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT 2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 2 1 0 0
ARSON 2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 0 0 0 0
STALKING*
(VAWA - Violence Against Women Act)
2019 2 0 0 0
2020 1 1 0 0
2021 3 0 0 0
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE*
(VAWA - Violence Against Women Act)
2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 2 0 0 1
DATING VIOLENCE*
(VAWA - Violence Against Women Act)
2019 1 1 0 0
2020 2 2 0 0
2021 3 2 0 0
ARRESTS - WEAPONS:
CARRYING, POSSESSING, ETC.
2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 2 2 0 0
DISCIPLINARY REFERRALS - WEAPONS:
CARRYING, POSSESSING, ETC.
2019 1 1 0 0
2020 2 2 0 0
2021 3 2 0 0
ARRESTS: DRUG ABUSE VIOLATIONS 2019 5 4 0 0
2020 2 2 0 0
2021 4 3 0 1
DISCIPLINARY REFERALLS:
DRUG ABUSE VIOLATIONS
2019 24 22 0 0
2020 9 9 0 0
2021 4 4 0 0
ARRESTS: LIQUOR LAW VIOLATIONS 2019 1 0 0 0
2020 1 1 0 0
2021 0 0 0 0
DISCIPLINARY REFERRALS:
LIQUOR LAW VIOLATIONS
2019 20 18 0 0
2020 3 3 0 0
2021 27 23 0 0

* On-Campus Property statistics include On-Campus Student Housing Facilities numbers.


Definitions of Criminal Offenses

Aggravated assault is an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault is usually accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm. It is not necessary that injury result from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife, or other weapon is used which could or probably would result in a serious potential injury if the crime were successfully completed.

Arson is any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property, etc.

Burglary is 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; housebreaking; safecracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.

Dating violence is violence by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim. Whether there was such relationship will be gauged by its length, type, and frequency of interaction.

Domestic violence is a felony or misdemeanor crime 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 of family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred, 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 in which the crime of violence occurred.

Drug abuse violations are defined as the violations of state and local laws relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing, and making of narcotic drugs. Relevant substances include: opium or cocaine and their derivatives (morphine, heroin, codeine); marijuana; synthetic narcotics (demerol, methadone); and dangerous non-narcotic drugs (barbiturates, Benzedrine).

Hate crimes are committed against a person or property which is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias. Bias is a preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons based on their race, gender, gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or national origin.

Liquor law violations are defined as the violation of laws or ordinance prohibiting: the manufacture, sale, transporting, furnishing, possessing of intoxicating liquor; maintaining unlawful drinking places; bootlegging; operating a still; furnishing liquor to a minor or intemperate person; using a vehicle for illegal transportation of liquor; drinking on a train or public conveyance; all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned. (Drunkenness and driving under the influence are not included in this definition.)

Motor vehicle theft is the theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle.

Murder and non-negligent manslaughter is the willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.

Negligent manslaughter is the killing of another person through gross negligence.

Robbery is the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.

Sex offenses are defined as any sexual act directed against another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent.

Rape is the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim. This definition includes any gender of victim or perpetrator.

Fondling is the touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because his/her temporary or permanent mental incapacity.

Incest is non-forcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

Statutory rape is non-forcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.

Stalking is a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person’s safety or the safety of others or to suffer substantial emotional distress.

Weapons violations are defined 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.


Definitions of Geography

As specified in the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, the following property descriptions are used to identify the location of crimes on and around ULM’s campus:

On-Campus Buildings or Property

1. 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; and

2. Any buildings or property that is within or reasonably contiguous to the area identified in the above paragraph, that is owned by the institution but controlled by another person, is frequently used by students and supports institutional purposes (such as a food or retail vendor.)

Non-Campus Buildings or Property

1. Any building or property owned or controlled by a student organization that is officially recognized by the institution; or

2. 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 of the institution.

Public Buildings or Property

All public property, including thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks, and parking facilities, that is within the campus or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus. The University of Louisiana Monroe crime statistics do not include crimes that occur in privately owned homes or businesses within or adjacent to the campus boundaries.

Zone 8 encompasses the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Therefore, it is included to show reported crimes from the surrounding areas. City of Monroe statistics do not include the University of Louisiana Monroe statistics.

City of Monroe Reported Crime: Zone 8 2019 2020 2021
Source: City of Monroe, Louisiana Police Department
a. Murder 0 0 0
b. Sexual Assaults 3 3 3
c. Aggravated Assaults 41 6 5
d. Robbery 0 0 1
e. Motor Vehicle Theft 0 3 5
f. Arson 1 0 0
g. Burglaries 30 47 25
 TOTALS 75 59 39

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