05/15/09 5:00am
Thefts from buildings more than doubled compared to April 2008, while incidents of violent crime were down since that time last year. Crimes against property showed little change overall.
Building thefts increased sharply from 14 last year to 30 this year.
05/04/09 5:00am
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04/28/09 5:00am
As many students look forward to leaving Penn for a summer of relaxation, the Division of Public Safety is preparing for what is one of its busiest periods of the year.
"It's a fallacy that as the vast majority of the student population leaves, out workload decreases," Captain Joseph Fischer said. "The challenges are in fact even greater over the summer.
04/20/09 5:00am
Violent crime has dropped significantly since Drexel University unveiled its new police department, according to Drexel's Senior Associate Vice President for Public Safety Domenic Ceccanecchio.
After being officially recognized as a law enforcement agency by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office in June 2008, the department has been operational since March 15.
04/16/09 5:00am
By MATTHEW BURNARD
Staff Writer
burnard@dailypennsylvanian.com
At a time when a cash-strapped media industry lacks the resources to monitor government spending, one recent Penn alum is using new media to fill this role.
Stephen Morse, an '07 College alumnus and a former Daily Pennsylvanian columnist, recently founded the Web site mytwocensus.
04/15/09 5:00am
Many students may not have had time to notice the appearance of ceramic squirrels along Locust Walk over the past few days since several of them have been disappearing.
The project, called "Squirrels on Locust," is coordinated by the Penn Art Club and is the first large-scale student-initiated art installation on campus.
04/15/09 5:00am
Robbery
April 8 - A male student, 20, reported that two unknown suspects approached him on the 100 block of S. 40th Street at about 12:20 a.m., one of whom displayed a knife and forced him to withdraw cash from his bank account at a nearby ATM.
Theft
April 3 - Stanley Wisocki, 46, unaffiliated with the University and of the 1200 block of Race Street, was arrested at about 8:30 p.
04/14/09 5:00am
A 22-year-old man unaffiliated with the University was stabbed at around 2:15 a.m. Saturday on the 200 block of South 44th Street, according to Philadelphia Police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore.
Responding to a call, Penn Police found that the complainant had been stabbed in the abdomen by a taxi driver.
04/13/09 5:00am
With the summer riding season coming up, Division of Public Safety officials are intent on stamping out bike crime on campus.
As a city with a very high student population, Philadelphia has become notorious in recent years as a bike theft hotspot.
Bike lock manufacturer Kryptonite publishes a "Top 10 Worst Cities for Bike Theft List" on its blog every year, and Philadelphia is its reigning champion.
04/10/09 5:00am
With the summer riding season coming up, Division of Public Safety officials are intent on stamping out bike crime on campus.
As a city with a very high student population, Philadelphia has become notorious in recent years as a bike theft hotspot.
Bike lock manufacturer Kryptonite publishes a "Top 10 Worst Cities for Bike Theft List" on its blog every year, and Philadelphia is its reigning champion.
04/08/09 5:00am
A senior admitted to the hospital last week has been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human strain of bovine spongiform encephalopathy - commonly known as Mad Cow disease.
The disease is fatal, and there is no known treatment or cure.
04/03/09 5:00am
Robbery
March 25 - A woman unaffiliated with the University, 28, reported at about 1:30 a.m. that an unknown suspect took her money at gunpoint on the 4000 block of Spruce Street, before fleeing in an unknown direction.
March 26 - A man unaffiliated with the University, 19, reported that a group of unknown males displayed a handgun and a knife, robbed him of cash and personal property, then fled north on 41st Street.
04/01/09 5:00am
As builders working on the new Music Building yesterday were ready to add the final beam to the roof, University officials hosted a traditional "topping-off" ceremony to honor their work over the past eight months.
The newly renovated building, which is on schedule for completion by the end of 2009, will include 15 offices and three classrooms in addition to two recording studios, practice rooms and a computer lab.
03/27/09 5:00am
"I've killed two people, I have a great personality and I've been skydiving," Gee said as he introduced himself to his fellow Political Science 435 students in an icebreaker exercise.
Not your typical introduction, but then again, nor is this your typical Penn class.
03/25/09 5:00am
Violent crime for the first two months of 2009 is slightly up compared to this time last year, but crimes against property and theft both show a significant decrease.
The total number of crimes for the year to date is also down compared to January and February 2008, from 134 to 106.
03/24/09 5:00am
An innovative piece of BlackBerry technology developed by a group of engineering students at Yale University could add another dimension to campus safety.
The free smartphone application called BScope Mobile was launched just over two weeks ago, and allows BlackBerrys to use raw GPS data to provide highly accurate information on the movements of the phone's owner.
03/18/09 5:00am
Assault
March 7 - Police arrested a 15-year-old female suspect for allegedly assaulting another 15-year-old girl at the 4000 block of Sansom Street at about 6:15 p.m. Both parties are unaffiliated with the University.
Theft
March 6 - A woman unaffiliated with the University reported that an unknown suspect removed her unattended wallet from the Food Court at 3409 Walnut St.
03/06/09 5:00am
Last weekend's late-night disturbances at 40th and Walnut streets have re-ignited the issue of Penn's campus as a leisure destination for the city's young people.
At about 11 p.m. Saturday night, about 500 teens formed a riot-like crowd between the McDonald's and the Radian on Walnut Street and had to be dispersed by Penn and Philadelphia Police officers.
03/02/09 5:00am
As Sgt. Casey Ann Busch pulled into the Penn Police Headquarters at 4040 Chestnut St. at midnight last Friday, ending a 17-hour shift, she reflected that it had been a quiet night.
Her work included cruising around the Penn Patrol Zone and responding to security guards' calls that turned out to be friends messing around.
02/27/09 5:00am
The Division of Public Safety today confirmed that DNA recovered from Dominique Wilson, 23, of S. 51st Street, positively links him to both the sexual assaults at 44th and Spruce streets and 9th and Clinton streets.
Wilson was arrested in Lock Haven, Pa., last week on 36 criminal counts, 12 of which relate to an incident during which he allegedly held three students with a knife against their will and sexually assaulted two of them.
