Category: Crime and safety

Members of the University of Wisconsin community received a familiar crime warning email Monday describing an ongoing string of on-campus burglaries involving electronics and credit cards … Those who opened the email, however, may have been surprised that in addition to the usual description and location of the crime and a vague description of any suspects involved in the case, this particular email also included photos of the suspects — two young black men.

UW-Madison police are seeking help in locating two people believed to be involved in a burglaries from administrative and academic buildings.

A series of burglaries that have occurred over the last two weeks on campus are being investigated by UW-Madison Police Department, according to a crime warning.

A range of UW-Madison student organizations—from the Campus Women’s Center and Women’s Studies Club to Black Woman Heal and Muslim Student Association—exchanged ideas Thursday for Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April, in the spirit of the month’s theme: “Engaging New Voices.”

A 22-year-old University of Wisconsin student is facing charges of lewd and lascivious behavior, after police say he ran through the state Capitol rotunda earlier this month while completely naked.

A former UW-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women pleaded not guilty.

A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in court Friday.

A suspended UW-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges.

A 22-year-old Madison man was tentatively charged by Capitol police this month for lewd and lascivious behavior after running around inside the Capitol building naked.

A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple charges.

University of Wisconsin-Madison police said Sunday they were forced to use a Taser on an 18-year-old man who was attacking and grabbing people outside a campus residence hall.

UW-Madison Police Department arrested an 18-year-old man Saturday who caused a public disturbance by grabbing pedestrians, according to a UWPD incident report.

An 18-year man, who was reportedly grabbing and attacking pedestrians near a UW-Madison dormitory Saturday, charged at officers and ran away before he was eventually Tased and arrested, UW police said.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say an 18-year-old man is in custody after he allegedly attacked and groped people near a residence hall.

If someone set up a poll of every University of Wisconsin student, I wonder what the percentage of students who have been or have almost been hit by a moped would be.

In front of current and former colleagues, former Madison Police Department Capt. Kristen Roman was sworn in as chief for the UW-Madison Police Department on Wednesday.

Chief Kristen Roman joined the campus police department early January. She had been with the Madison Police Department for 26 years.

With her 26 years of community outreach experience in tow, new University of Wisconsin Police Department Chief Kristen Roman is confident she can build up police-community relationships.

Before being sworn in as the newest leader of the UW-Madison Police Department, Chief Kristen Roman sat down with The Daily Cardinal to discuss the most prevalent issues on campus, including campus carry legislation, undocumented students and sexual assault, among other issues.

A judge refused on Friday to dismiss four charges against a suspended University of Wisconsin student from the Twin Cities accused of sexually assaulting and harassing women, rejecting his attorneys’ claim that some of his actions were no worse than “Happy Days” television character Arthur Fonzarelli’s flirtatious antics.

Suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook asks a judge to dismiss several criminal charges against him, including stalking and a sexual assault count.

The UW-Madison Police Department announced on Wednesday the passing of police horse Vegas.

UW-Madison Police Department’s police horse, Vegas, died Tuesday after more than one year of suffering from Degenerative Suspensory Ligament Disease.

A long-serving campus police horse was euthanized Tuesday after suffering from a painful disease, officials said. The University of Wisconsin-Madison police said Vegas, who served with the department’s mounted patrol for 12 years, was suffering from suspensory ligament disease, an incurable ailment that affects the horse’s ability to use his hind legs, causing a lot of pain.

Madison Police Department responded to an act of aggravated battery Friday that occurred at the intersection of University Avenue and Hawthorne Court near the UW-Madison campus.

Advocates for survivors of sexual and domestic abuse are calling on state Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, to retract his condemnation of a University of Wisconsin-Madison program that challenges men to reevaluate ideas of masculine identity.

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison police officers who entered a classroom to make an arrest in April acted within their authority, according to the conclusion of an administrative review of the arrest. The review also offered recommended changes for the department

Two UW-Madison police officers who went into a classroom in April to initiate the arrest of an alleged graffiti vandal were within their rights to do so, according to an administrative review of the case.

The two officers who entered a university classroom in April to question a suspect acted within their authority, University of Wisconsin-Madison police said Thursday.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students plan to carry sex toys around campus next semester to protest a bill that would allow concealed weapons in university classrooms.