Stats show rise in burglaries, thefts
Spike attributed to targeting of summer students
Burglaries and thefts on campus increased sharply last year, according to the 2006 Yale University Report on Campus Security.
The annual report, e-mailed to the Yale community by University Secretary Linda Lorimer on Tuesday, shows an increase of over 50 percent in on-campus burglaries and thefts in 2006, following a year during which there was a marked decrease in such crimes. Deputy Secretary Martha Highsmith said this year to date has had about the same number of burglaries as 2006.
Highsmith said the spike in burglaries and thefts — 99 overall in 2006, up from 65 in...
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