Category: Crime and safety

The University of Wisconsin Police Department at a ceremony Wednesday broke ground on a $4.8 million expansion of its headquarters.

A second victim has come forward claiming to have been sexually assaulted by University of Wisconsin senior Alec Cook.

A UW-Madison student was seriously injured after losing control of their skateboard and hitting a light pole on Observatory Drive.

Alec Cook, 20, who was arrested for alleged sexual assault earlier this week, turned himself into Madison Police officers Thursday night and has been tentatively charged with the sexual assault of a second victim.

A project to more than double the size of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department’s headquarters has officially broken ground, according to a news release.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison student suffered a serious injury skateboarding on campus Thursday afternoon, an official said.

A 20-year-old woman told police she was also a sexual assault victim after the arrest of a Madison man on sexual assault charges.

A 20-year-old UW-Madison student was arrested Monday in connection with a sexual assault that occurred Downtown last week, according to Madison police.

A UW-Madison student was charged Wednesday with four counts of second-degree sexual assault arising from an incident last week in which another student told police she was raped.

A UW-Madison student charged this week with the sexual assault of a student turned himself in Thursday night for allegedly sexually assaulting another student, after the woman saw news accounts of his initial arrest and came forward with her story.

The University of Wisconsin Bias Response Team released a report Wednesday that found students reported nearly three times more campus bias incidents in the first half of 2016 than in the last half of 2015.

The number of hate and bias incidents reported on campus has increased from 18 in Fall 2015 to 66 in the spring, according to university officials.

UW-Madison students reported more than three times as many instances of discrimination to campus officials through the first half of 2016 than they had during the prior six months, according to a report released Wednesday.

Shortly after Lori Berquam became dean of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison some 20 years ago, she encountered a female student on a moped covered with stickers.

University of Wisconsin sophomore and First Wave scholar Eneale Pickett is no longer saying, whispering or asking “Can I please be given access to this space?”

The headline of the email reads “UW-Madison Crime Warning,” but it is the subhead that details the crime itself — sexual assault.

A Madison woman was arrested on Sunday for attacking a 26-year old victim near the UW- Madison campus.

The symposium, titled “Relations between Community and Police,” was sponsored by the Wisconsin University Union, an independent organization composed of staff and faculty at UW-Madison.

The University of Wisconsin’s Committee on Student Organizations has terminated Sigma Phi Epsilon after receiving evidence the fraternity had violated its suspension.

Associated Students of Madison listened to a presentation on the impact the University of Wisconsin’s drinking culture on students of color Wednesday.

The UW-Madison chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has been terminated due to violations of Student Organization Code of Conduct policies.

The University of Wisconsin’s Committee on Student Organizations has terminated Sigma Phi Epsilon after receiving evidence the fraternity had violated its suspension.

A fraternity chapter at UW-Madison has been terminated for violating the university’s code of conduct policies.

The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been terminated as a student organization for violating student organization code of conduct policies, according to a release.

The Madison Police Department will start a three-year pilot program called the “Madison Addiction Recovery Initiative” after recently securing a $700,000 Smart Policing grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.

To help create a safer campus at UW Madison, the university Taekwondo club held a women’s self defense seminar.

The UW-Madison Police Department held its “Coffee with a Cop” event Wednesday morning where police officers handed out free coffee to students at East Campus Mall.

Anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a University of Wisconsin-Madison dormitory over the weekend, a campus spokeswoman said.

University of Wisconsin-Madison police released information Thursday about a sexual assault that allegedly occurred at a fraternity house on Langdon Street last weekend, but the incident has not yet been reported to the Madison Police Department, according to an MPD spokesman.

UW-Madison Police are alerting the public about a sexual assault this past Saturday.

A sexual assault was reported at an unnamed University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity house last weekend, police said.

The UW-Madison Police Department bid farewell to their chief of 25 years, Sue Riseling, at the end of this past spring semester.

With more than 30 years of experience with UWPD under his belt, interim University of Wisconsin Police Chief Brian Bridges knows the value of community engagement.

A recent incident of what authorities say was a 25-year old man groping and fondling several women at a campus area bar reveals some of the reasons sexual assault victims are reluctant to report.