Category Archives: Crime

While incidents like Friday’s stabbing outside Kerckhoff Hall draw much attention, university officials said in reality violent crime on campus is fairly rare. Since 2003, university police have not recorded any homicides, and Nancy Greenstein, director of police community services at UCPD, said assault is the most common type of crime police respond to. In […]

Though Los Angeles police have begun cracking down on transients sleeping on sidewalks in the city, university police said they have no plans to do the same on campus. Nancy Greenstein, director of police community services at UCPD, said police will likely leave homeless people on campus alone unless they create a disturbance. “It’s situational,” […]

A stabbing occurred on the steps of Kerckhoff Hall Friday morning, and officials said the victim was hospitalized but not seriously injured. The victim is a 19-year-old “UCLA affiliate,” according to a university police press release, but police would not confirm whether the victim was a student. As of Sunday afternoon the suspect had not […]

Fire damages abandoned fraternity house A fire broke out early Monday morning at an abandoned fraternity house on Gayley Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The vacant former Sigma Phi Epsilon house reportedly caught fire at about 2 a.m. LAFD firefighters arrived shortly thereafter and were able to confine the blaze to the […]

Richard Elias estimates that six or seven cases of identity theft are reported by members of the UCLA community every week. The university police detective said identity theft is a crime students ““ especially those who live off campus ““ should be very aware of. And some recent studies show that identity theft among young […]

The Undergraduate Students Association Council has set a variety of lofty goals for the upcoming year, though disagreement within the council has already stalled some of its work. USAC’s two main goals are to increase student representation within the administration and increase campus safety. Other goals include facilitating the freshman and transfer adjustment process and […]

So far this year, university police have released 12 alerts notifying the Westwood community of especially concerning crimes. In all of 2005, eight such alerts were released. The disparity reflects a recent increase in minor criminal activity in the UCLA area, ranging from the string of sexual batteries in January to this month’s peeper incidents […]