Category Archives: Crime

UCLA Transportation Services and university police have stepped up security measures on campus as the beginning of a new school year nears. These changes come on the heels of a string of robberies that affected the UCLA community and Westwood over the summer. Police said two men spent several nights in Westwood over the summer […]

The UCLA campus and parts of Westwood were among the many areas that lost power in Los Angeles today after city utility workers accidentally erred in connecting wires and disconnected large swaths of the L.A. basin from power. About half the buildings on campus were affected in the blackout, including chunks of South Campus and […]

Los Angeles police are advising people not to walk alone at night after receiving several reports of armed robberies around the UCLA campus, the most recent of which took place on Aug. 13. Suspects have been approaching victims on the street and demanding money and property, according to an LAPD press release. Most of the […]

Crime at and around UCLA has decreased in the last year, but that does not mean precautions and preventative measures should be overlooked, say university police and university officials. According to newly released crime statistics from the UCPD, there were 1,167 violent and property crimes at UCLA in 2004, a decrease of 146 from the […]

Hundreds of students will gather in Westwood on Wednesday night to participate in what is rapidly becoming a popular UCLA tradition ““ running through the streets in their skivvies. The Undie Run, as it is popularly called, happens on Wednesday night of finals week each quarter. Students congregate at the northern intersection of Landfair and […]

Petty Theft Nearly $60 was stolen from a room in the MacDonald Medical Research Laboratory on May 7. Someone stole $81 from a wallet in a room at 715 Gayley Ave. between May 6 and 7. A bicycle worth $160 was stolen from the bike racks near the Young Research Library on April 15. Grand […]

University police will begin issuing $87 citations today for drivers and passengers caught not buckling up during a period of special police enforcement dubbed “Click it or Ticket.” “These next three weeks, we’re going to have officers solely dedicated to actually looking for seat-belt violators,” said Justin Mammen, who works in the UCPD community services […]