Claire Gatlin
A VUPD car, as photographed on Nov. 9, 2022. (Hustler Multimedia/Claire Gatlin)
The 2022 Vanderbilt University Public Safety Annual Security and Fire Safety Report noted an increase in reported cases of rape and fondling and decreases in reported fires and motor vehicle theft. This year’s report was the first to include information from the COVID-19 pandemic.
VUPS is responsible for recording information for this report on a daily basis throughout each calendar year, in line with the Clery Act, which requires statistics for crimes and fires to be included in the three most recently completed calendar years. The Clery Act also mandates that campus officials evaluate if there is a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community to determine if a timely warning needs to be issued to all staff and students when a Clery Act crime occurs. The report also serves in compliance with Tennessee’s College and University Security Information Act and the Fire Safety Right-to-Know provisions of the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act.
The following statistics only involve reports of crimes and violations on the university campus, not including the VUMC. According to the report, this jurisdiction includes any on-campus buildings, such as residence halls, as well as adjacent streets, sidewalks, parking garages and non-campus educational sites. Violations are categorized by the year in which they were reported, rather than the year in which they occurred. The 2022 report includes statistics from 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Violence Against Women Act violations
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