TU Campus In Need of Reducing Crime Rate

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http://tulsastreetstories.blogspot.com/2008/11/tu-campus-in-need-of-reducing-crime_06.html

While college institutions located in Tulsa are safer than other college institutions in the state of Oklahoma, the University of Tulsa totals a significantly higher number of criminal offenses in comparison with its neighboring institutions.

In the past three years, the University of Tulsa has accounted for 89 on-campus criminal offenses, according to the Office of Postsecondary Education. This totals 75 more criminal offenses than Rogers State University and 51 more than Oral Roberts University.

A similar enrollment size between 3000 and 4000 students is shared among the three college institutions, but TU proves to be a more risky environment.

The majority of the criminal offenses that occurred on TU’s campus included burglary and motor vehicle theft.

Specifically 40.4% of the criminal offenses were related to burglary and 44.9% were related to motor vehicle theft.

In contrast, none of the criminal offenses that took place at Rogers State were related to motor vehicle theft, along with only 2 occurrences at Oral Roberts.

Additional efforts due to these statistics have been made by TU officials to reduce the rate of motor vehicle theft. There is now only one entrance to most parking lots on campus and an iron gate borders the perimeter of the school.

The future will tell whether these efforts can help reduce the crime rate at TU and make it a more secure environment like its neighboring schools.

More information on crime rates for the University of Tulsa and other campuses can be found here.

http://www.ope.ed.gov/security/Index.aspx