Category: Crime and safety

Suspect threatened victim with knife, neither affiliated with UW.

The suspect, who is known by the victim, displayed their knife before fleeing the scene Wednesday night. University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating this case.

The University of Wisconsin police department told Newsweek on Wednesday via email: “Madison Police Communications staff are very overwhelmed right now, and it is our understanding that they are not releasing any information about victims, names, ages, parents, etc. at this time.

“When they are ready to release more information they will through media sources, is what we have been informed of.”

UWPD explained in an update that each of the 19 individuals will be cited for violating conduct on university property for allegedly “creating a volume of noise that unreasonably interfered with a university-sponsored or university-authorized activity.”

About 50 protesters disrupted a meeting at around 8:30 a.m. last Thursday at Gordon Dining and Event Center. Groups protesting included Students for Justice in Palestine at UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee Popular University for Palestine along with other Pro-Palestinian student groups from UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.

University spokesperson John Lucas told the Cardinal Dec. 7 that “UW supports the right to free expression within the bounds of the law and campus policy” and that the investigation and arrests were due to “disruptive behaviors” and violation of the Expressive Activity Policy.

Band Engagement Coordinator Aaron Vieth will investigate Students For Justice in Palestine for violating Expressive Activity policy during their Dec. 5 protest at Gordon Dining & Event Center on behalf of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standa

Jordan Miller, 20, is a business student at the university. Three other people in the vehicle were killed when the Cybertruck crashed early Wednesday morning.

According to statistics released by the UW-Madison Police Department Saturday, 29 people in total were ejected from the stadium against Minnesota. The total included eight that were UW students.

Almost three dozen people were ejected and over one dozen arrested from Saturday’s University of Wisconsin football game versus the Oregon Ducks, the UW Police Department announced Saturday.

The university said the alleged victim and the suspect knew each other.

Students notified via email, sexual assault was not reported to UWPD.

University of Wisconsin-Madison campus police made a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Friday regarding racist text messages being sent to students. “UWPD is aware of reports that Black UW-Madison students have received racist text messages as part of a nationwide wave of messages that began on Thursday,” the department posted.

Racist text messages were sent to some Black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, part of a nationwide wave of threatening texts in the wake of Election Day that has caught the FBI’s attention.

Black UW-Madison students were among the recipients of a spate of racist text messages sent out this week that indicated they would need to show up at a specific location to be enslaved and pick cotton, the UW-Madison Police Department confirmed Friday.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students received racist text messages that went to Black Americans across the country, the UW Police Department said Friday. The texts reference slavery and were sent nationwide on Thursday, UWPD said.

UHS provides vital resources for survivors and bystanders alike.

The near-majority of ejections, 22, were for underage alcohol possession. There were also two ejections for entering the playing surface and four ejections for trespassing.

Authorities said it happened around 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, in a southeast campus residence hall.

UW-Madison officials stated in a message to the campus community Monday that a sexual assault was reported last week.

UW informed students of on-campus incident occurring Oct. 22 via Crime Warning email sent Monday afternoon, no investigation currently underway.

The University of Wisconsin reported a sexual assault occurring in a Southeast Residence hall Tuesday, Oct. 22, according to a Crime Warning email sent to students Monday afternoon.

The incident occurred at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, and the victim and alleged offender knew each other.

The brutal attack and sexual assault of a woman happened early the morning of Sept. 3, 2023, and left her fighting for her life. In the criminal complaint filed against Thompson, a Madison Police Department sergeant who was one of the first officers on the scene of the downtown assault described the victim’s injuries as “one of the most horrifying things I’ve seen.”

According to a Dane County court filing obtained by 27 News, a lawyer for Brandon Thompson wrote to the judge “Defendant Brandon Thompson wishes to waive the upcoming motion hearing in his case, and wishes to instead enter a guilty plea.”

University Health Services, PAVE-UW share resources for survivors, allies.

Nearby residents express concern over lack of police communication and increased violence in student-populated area.

Despite an entertaining and dominating performance by the Wisconsin Badgers at Camp Randall Saturday, some fans ran into law enforcement trouble. According to statistics released by the UW-Madison Police Department Saturday, 26 people in total were ejected from the stadium during the game against Purdue. The total includes seven that were identified as UW students.

The agency reported four e-scooter thefts on the night of Wednesday, September 25 — one from outside the Educational Sciences building, one from outside Mechanical Engineering, and two from outside LaBahn Arena.

The two, Dahlia Saba and Vignesh Ramachandran, face disciplinary charges for allegedly “planning and carrying out an encampment on university lands.” Disciplinary charges were brought based on an op-ed co-authored by the two in The Cap Times where they critiqued the UW-Madison administration’s refusal to engage with protestor demands to divest from companies profiting off the genocide in Gaza.

Former UW Athletics employee Marcel Dubois is facing charges for spending upwards of $7000 using cards meant for student athletes.

Some of the women alleging Combs abused them are Black women, which may play a part in the doubt they faced. According to Chloe Grace Hart, an assistant professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, this dates back to the 19th century, where the minimization of of Black women’s experiences of sexual violence in the United States was “actually written into law.”

New chief of police will address complex campus safety challenges, aiming for spring 2025 hire.

UW-Madison police said two of the bikes were stolen from outside Ogg Hall, Sellery Hall and the Zoology Research Building.

The search committee will be chaired by UW–Madison’s Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs Nancy Lynch.

Most who attended Saturday’s Wisconsin Badgers football game at Camp Randall Stadium were well behaved. Some, however, left with a citation, or with a police escort.