Because the law stipulates that the numbers must be compiled by calendar year, higher education institutions, which run on an academic calendar, are forced to recount all of their statistics month by month. It is a very time-consuming task for all involved, and because the law is very new, campus police are scrambling to comply. UNC Chapel Hill's Public Safety web site lists the crimes that occurred there by day and month, but it does not compile the crimes by calendar year, only by academic year. One hopes that as the law becomes older and campus police become more accustomed to it, these statistics will be easier to find. As it is, any prospective student trying to find crime statistics for 1998 will be sorely disappointed.
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