Category: Crime and safety

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.

It’s a $4.8-million project that will make UW-Madison police headquarters look a lot different.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department will break ground on an expansion project for its downtown headquarters soon.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department has been struggling to find office space on campus for years.

A UW-Madison fraternity member tackled and held down a burglary suspect late Monday night.

A college student tackled a teenage burglar Monday night as he caught him in the act, police said.

A UW-Madison student arriving home at his fraternity Monday night stopped a burglary in progress by tackling and holding one of the three suspects, the 16-year-old taken into custody and tentatively charged with a variety of crimes.

Madison Police arrested a teenager after they say he and two others broke into a fraternity house on Langdon St. Monday night.

Madison Police arrested a 16-year-old Madison resident after he and two other suspects were stopped mid-robbery at the University of Wisconsin Kappa Sigma fraternity house on 124 Langdon St.

Susan Riseling is pinning up her badge, retiring after serving a quarter-century as the chief of police at UW-Madison.

On July 26, 2016, Senior Producer Steve Walters conducted an exit interview with UW-Madison Police Chief Riseling regarding her years of service and her retirement.

The family of a missing UW-Madison student said their daughter has been found. Raquel Gonzalez, 19, was found Saturday evening. She hadn’t been seen by anyone since Wednesday.

Study-abroad programs are designed to expose students to ideas and cultures different from their own. They are a soft-diplomacy tool, a chance for young people to share positive exchanges with students in parts of the world that aren’t always fond of the United States, places with different philosophies for governing and doing business. Studying abroad is not supposed to be easy or comfortable. But it’s also not supposed to be fatal.

Noted: The incidents have police departments across the country warning gamers not to bury their heads in their phones. “You need to be aware of your surroundings and be careful,” said Marc Lovicott, communications director for campus police at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: “Thankfully we haven’t seen any serious accidents here, but we have heard some complaints,” UW-Madison Police Spokesman Marc Lovicott says.

Noted: On the UW-Madison campus, players have had at least three close calls this past weekend.”We want people to have a fun time but just don’t walk in the middle of the street. We have had people biking in the street and using it who are weaving in and out of traffic; it’s just not safe. We just don’t want someone to get seriously hurt or even killed,” UW-Madison Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott said.

Noted: Marc Lovicott, from the UW-Madison Police Department, says thankfully, PokemonGo hasn’t been blamed for any recent incidents in Madison.

“Thankfully we haven’t seen any serious accidents here, but we have heard some complaints,” UW-Madison Police Spokesman Marc Lovicott says.

On the UW-Madison campus, players have had at least three close calls this past weekend.

VIDEO: UWPD Chief Sue Riseling is retiring. Neil Heinen talks to her about career.

The death of a UW-Madison student who was studying abroad in Italy has been especially hard to take in the communities the young man called home.

ROME — Pope Francis met on Wednesday with the parents of an American college student whose body was found in the Tiber River this week, a victim of what the police are calling robbery and murder.

Beau Solomon, the American student whose body was recovered from a river in Rome days ago, is one of several American students who died while studying abroad in Italy in recent years. But research shows that students are actually safer while on international exchanges than on American college campuses.