Crime Skyrockets at UCSB

We affectionately refer to some of our detractors as “knuckleheads.”   We use that term to mean someone who, in the face of overwhelming information and facts, denies the facts.  Our most vocal knuckleheads are the ones who continue to claim that UCSB/IV is a safe place. 

The crime rate at UCSB is skyrocketing.   Below is a comparison of the UCSB 2002 and 2006 Clery Reports—2006 is the latest year available.   Please note, dear knuckleheads, that the numbers come from the official UCSB reports.  These numbers are for on-campus crimes only (not IV):

Forcible Sexual Offenses have increase 900%.  

Aggravated Assaults have increased almost 200%

Burglary is up 62%

and finally, Liquor Law Referrals are up almost 76%

Of course, we have long claimed that UCSB grossly under reports crime.  UCSB has gotten away with it by simply not reporting all the crime that occurs that is within the UCPD jurisdiction.  UCPD reports much of the crime that they investigate on the Isla Vista Foot Patrol (IVFP) reports so that it doesn't hit the UCSB reports.   In 2006 (we hope, in part due to this website questioning the reporting) UCSB has finally begun to report more of the actual crime.  In 2006, UCSB reported 1,474 Liquor Law Arrest in IV.  They reported zero in 2002.  Can anyone calculate the percentage of increase?  Do your really believe that they had no information available to report on  liquor law arrests in 2002?  

The numbers reported by UCSB hardly scratch the surface of crime in the UCSB/IV "intellectual" region.   In 2004, the IVFP logged 8,213 reports of crimes resulting in thousands of arrests.  Arrests ranged from murder, to robbery, to assault, to drug sales, to burglary, to alcohol related crimes, to "non criminal" offenses such as fighting and domestic violence (Fighting and domestic violence are "non criminal" offenses?).  There was even a category for "misc crimes/misd" which we assume is were they put all the reported  misdemeanors  that were simply too weird to classify.  

In 2004 the IVFP reported the following (remember, these numbers are in addition to the UCSB reports):

2,768 Liquor Law Arrests

1,339 other arrests for everything from murder, to armed robbery, to assault, to urinating in public, to domestic violence, to drunk in public.  

All total, the IVFP arrested more than 4,200 people in 2004 alone.   That is about 25% of the population of IV.  

Some of the knuckleheads will claim that the "out-of-towners" commit many of the crimes.  This is true.  It is also true that it doesn't much matter to a murder, rape or assault victim that the perpetrator lived in a different zip code.  Moreover, the out-of-towners come to raise hell in IV because aberrant behavior is not merely tolerated in IV, it is encouraged.