UAF police made 220 arrests last year, mostly for liquor and drug law violations. That’s down from 245 arrests in 208 and 315 arrests in 2007.
“I don’t really have a crystal ball for you,” said UAF police chief Sean McGee. “The one thing I believe has taken place is just like K-12, we get groups of kids who cycle through the system, and like in my jurisdiction ... we seem to have a good group of kids coming through.”
Campus police made 29 arrests for liquor law violations and 22 arrests for drug law violations last year. In 2008, they made 39 liquor law arrests and 18 arrests for violating drug laws.
Burglary reports have seen the biggest decline in reports in the past two years. UAF police received 30 reports of burglaries in 2007, but last year they only received four reports.
McGee said he believes a stronger police presence on campus might have something to do with the decline, but said the lower number of arrests likely had more to do with a good group of students at UAF.
“We’re working hard and we have a good group of kids here,” he said.
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Thank goodness for safety and crime issues, but why would an
Alaskan Campus hire and keep an ''over compulsive, thrill seeker, head hunter" employed on campus? I'd have to say, most of the people that work there and know how to treat students are "good guys." What gets me is the "A type" individual that they recruited from the Airport.
Sounds like a great masters thesis or a doctoral dissertation to me.