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Yale crime rate drops 14 percent

YDN Staff Reporter
Published Friday, January 19, 2001

The number of crimes reported at Yale dropped dramatically last year, continuing a trend that began nearly 10 years ago.

The University saw a 14 percent drop in reported crimes in 2000, from 583 to 501, according to Yale's Uniform Crime Report, which the Yale Police Department released Thursday. Since 1996, campus crime has dropped over 30 percent.

"None of us here can remember such a big decrease," Yale Police Chief James Perrotti said of the 14 percent figure.

Every police agency in the country files a Uniform Crime Report with the FBI. The report lists reported...

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