Neighborhoods just outside of the University of Wisconsin will soon see extra patrol on the street, but instead of police, they’re students! They aren’t being trained but instead they are working with Madison Police. It’s all part of a student watch program to increase off-campus safety.
Starting tomorrow, with flashlights in hand, students will be pounding the pavement to kick crime to the curb.
“There were a lot of muggings going on so we wanted to put a lot of students on the streets more later in the night and this is something that came out of it,” says Campus Safety chairman, Kelly Arendt.