The neat columns and rows of numbers cannot possibly convey the suffering experienced by victims of crime. Nor can statistics depict the turmoil that a hateful act can bring to a community. Still, Miami believes it is important to make it easy for students, faculty and staff to have access to such information and thus it posts its Your Right to Know Campus Security Act Report on the Web. Miami also exceeds Campus Security Act reporting requirements by including in its totals crimes that occur throughout the City of Oxford in order to better provide information about community safety. Even if the incident does not rise to a violation of the law, cases of harassment, verbal slurs, etc., can lead to more serious hate motivated violence when the community fails to responds.
Silence is acceptance.
These behaviors tear at the fabric of the community. The following chart provides more detailed information on what offenses are included in community and university hate crime statistics. Crimes involving an unidentified suspect who is at large and who poses an ongoing threat to the safety of the community trigger the issuance of a campus crime alert. When the IRT determines that a crime meets these criteria, Miami Police will issue a Campus Crime Alert, which is then widely circulated through the community. The IRT includes the dean of students, police chief, general counsel, senior director of university communications and other staff and faculty members.