….On Thursday, Madison police officials released the department’s annual crime statistics, which will be used to compile the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report later this year….one unsettling statistic stands out: a striking 52 percent increase in forcible rape, to 94 incidents from 62 the previous year.
….The incidence of rape and other violent crime was most prevalent in the central district’s university student-heavy and bar-saturated downtown area, where 228 violent crimes were reported. That’s more than twice as many as in the city’s north and east districts.