Total reported crime on Ohio University's Athens campus in six FBI categories decreased 35.3 percent in calendar year 1995, according to figures released by the university's Department of Campus Safety. The number of crimes in the six FBI reporting areas which campuses are required by the federal Campus Crime Act to make public decreased from 34 in 1994 to 22 in 1995. Those categories of crime include rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft and murder. The most dramatic decline came with aggravated assaults, which decreased 46.2 percent, from 13 to 7 in 1995.
Aggravated assaults involve bodily injury caused by fisticuffs, a knife or other dangerous weapons.
The number of burglaries dropped from 18 in 1994 to 13 last year, a 27.8 percent decline, and there were no robberies on the Athens campus in 1995 compared with two the previous year. There also were no rapes or murders reported on campus in 1995. There were no crimes reported on any of Ohio University's five regional campuses in 1995. Our first focus is on crimes against the person, and we continued to show low incidence of rape, robbery and assault. And we were successful in reducing crimes against property with substantial decreases in burglaries and larceny thefts.