Category: Crime and safety

Walking companion service sees calls nearly triple

The number of UW-Madison community members requesting to be walked home at night has dramatically increased following multiple assaults and robberies on campus since the beginning of October.

Each survivor of sexual assault is different, and each has felt the impact of their assault in different ways.

The Madison Police Department said a man armed with a handgun entered the sub shop at 1401 University Ave. shortly before 8 p.m.

A man who was arrested by UW-Madison police on Tuesday for a reported assault and attempted abduction was identified in federal court documents Wednesday as Monona man who is serving five years of federal probation for possessing child pornography.

Speakers were protesting Senate Bill 169, which allows individuals to carry weapons in public places with no permit.

Following four gun-related incidents throughout Madison in the last week, a campus protest of concealed carry on Tuesday and a mass shooting in Las Vegas Oct. 1, legislators and student leaders gathered at the Capitol to voice opposition to a proposed permitless carry bill.

A bigoted message was painted on a fire circle honoring Native American tribes outside UW-Madison’s Dejope Residence Hall, a university official said.

A person of interest was arrested Tuesday in relation to an assault and attempted abduction on the UW-Madison campus last week.

Early Monday morning the sacred fire circle at Dejope Residence Hall was desecrated with red paint.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students plan to rally Wednesday against Senate Bill 169. The bill would eliminate a required conceal-carry permit in Wisconsin. It would also allow concealed firearms on properties they were previously banned from, unless otherwise noted.

Madison police responded to at least four weapons violations across the city within the past three days. The incidents came amid renewed conversations between city officials on how to curb violence in the area.

The suspect that police say pulled out what appeared to be an assault rifle in an altercation at a food cart on State Street Sunday morning has been arrested on unrelated charges.

Driver arrested for operating vehicle while intoxicated.

Thirty eight year-old Tino Luu was arrested for theft, disorderly conduct.

Reported hate crimes on UW-Madison’s campus dramatically increased in 2016 — and anti-Semitic vandalism was the most prominent issue.

City officials, downtown residents and local business owners are grappling with a wave of crime in a popular bar district near the UW-Madison campus.

Odin, the UW-Madison Police Department’s explosive-detection and tracking K9, was put down Tuesday morning, Oct. 3, after developing masses on his spleen and liver. The 9-year-old german shepherd was born in the Czech Republic and partnered with Lt. Brent Plisch.

Potential exposure to lead at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is more widespread than previously reported. Last week UW officials said there might be lead contamination at Agricultural Hall. Now, Bascom Hall is being looked at too.

A first-responder motorcade drove University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department K-9 Odin from his home in McFarland to Middleton after he died Tuesday.

An unknown suspect attacked and attempted to abduct a University of Wisconsin student early Monday morning near Observatory Drive.

UWPD is investigating an attempted abduction that occurred early Monday morning near Ingraham Hall.

A female student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was attacked and beaten early Monday by a man who tried to abduct her near the Social Sciences building on Observatory Drive, campus police said.

A UW-Madison student was assaulted by a man armed with a weapon early Monday morning, the UW-Madison Police Department said.

Some people may assume that police officers don’t have a sense of humor. That’s not the case for University of Wisconsin Madison Police Department.

UW-Madison officials say they are looking into possible lead contamination at two campus buildings, Ag Hall and Nancy Nicholas Hall.

UW-Madison police say there is no continued threat to area and that they’re on the scene investigating.

UW-Madison is responding to a possible lead contamination problem created by a recent construction project at Agriculture Hall

UWPD partnered with Trek Bicycles for the “Be Bright” bicycle light enforcement initiative. Instead of giving out tickets to people biking without a light at night, bicyclists received a free Trek bike light.

Friends of a beloved windsurfer who died on Lake Mendota are coming together for another memorial, as they wait for answers about why he was killed.

Madison police are investigating a shots fired incident near the UW-Arboretum Sunday.

Calling sexual assault on college campuses “not a junior crime” but a “serious, big-league crime,” a Dane County judge sentenced a former UW-Madison student to 1½ years in prison Friday for an incident in November in which he sexually assaulted and choked a friend in his dorm room while high on a hallucinogenic drug.

National data show sentences are typically more severe.

When Kristen Roman was sworn in as the new UW-Madison police chief last spring, she stepped into the role with lofty ambitions. However, her first meeting with the Associated Students of Madison last February revealed some doubts students had about her intentions.

An 18-year-old Madison man was charged Tuesday with secretly recording women in bathroom stalls at a UW-Madison dormitory just hours after his father bailed him out of jail on charges from a similar incident eight days earlier.

A 23-year-old student was nearly stabbed in the 700 block of State Street early Monday around 12:35 a.m.

A 21-count case that alleges sexual assault, harassment and stalking behavior toward 10 women by a former UW-Madison student will be broken up into six separate trials, a Dane County judge ruled in a written decision issued late Thursday.

Just a week after being arrested for sneaking into Sellery Residence Hall and taking pictures of residents in a women’s restroom, an 18-year-old Madison man was arrested again Thursday by UW-Madison police for a similar crime.

Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook will face seven separate trials in a sexual assault case involving nearly a dozen women, a county judge ruled Thursday.

A suspect in an intrusion into a woman’s bathroom at a UW campus dorm, is accused of committing a sexual assault twenty four hours after his jail release.

Dane County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Elise Schaffer tells 27 News the investigation into Yu Chen’s death in May is now being reviewed by the Dane County District Attorney’s Office.

A Madison man arrested after allegedly going into women’s restrooms in a UW-Madison dormitory early Wednesday was arrested again on Thursday for allegedly grabbing a woman’s buttocks.

An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after sneaking into a University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall and entering several women’s restrooms, officials said.

The University of Wisconsin Police Department is trying to expand what people might think of when they imagine a typical police officer. The department held a “Women’s Conversation and Coffee” event Wednesday to talk to women interested in joining the force.