By: TommyS

TommyS
Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:33:11 +0000

This is quite surprising. There were only 9 instances of burglary on- or off-campus last year. I was under the impression the weekly total was higher than that. Does this figure include a situation where items are stolen from a dorm room or an unlocked apartment? It should, I would think.

Burglary is supposed to include “breaking in” but technically the door or window doesn’t have to be locked, just closed. I bet the campus police are saying that unless you can prove your dorm door was closed (not necessarily locked) they’re not going to call it burglary. Maybe they’re not counting dorms as “dwellings” or they’re saying under common law the incident has to be known to have taken place during “nighttime” to be considered burglary.

So, not to be too negative on the crime scene (I’m very heavily invested in OSU and will be for a few more years) but if the burglary statistic is massaged, how about the rest of them?