Category: Crime and safety

At approximately 3:15 p.m., a car rolled over on University Avenue. The cause of the incident is unknown at this time.

La Follette High School mathematics teacher Jason Wu is charged with two felonies after his phone was allegedly found recording men changing at the Nicholas Recreation Center on the University of Wisconsin Campus.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man charged with a hate crime after authorities say he threw rocks at Jewish UW-Madison students from a rooftop. The warrant took effect Tuesday for Ethan W. Hanson, 21, of Deerfield.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral student’s research boat has been found in Michigan – six weeks after it went missing on the water.

Chelsea Volpano was collecting data offshore in Lake Michigan at Lion’s Den Nature Preserve on Oct. 30. It was a perfect day to collect information about coastal erosion until the small research vessel drifted away.

Nearly 35 years ago, officers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department decided to saddle up to help keep crime at bay. Maybe you’ve spotted the two new recruits on campus or along State St.

The unnamed student group was meeting in the Humanities Building when the perpetrators, who are not affiliated with the university, went inside multiple rooms and interrupted the meeting. The perpetrators then made a number of racist and threatening comments, including remarks with anti-Arab and anti-Asian sentiments, a Wednesday night news release from the university said.

“Hate and racism — in this incident, anti-Arab and anti-Asian sentiments — have no place on our campus,” Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor said in a statement.

UWPD says several people unaffiliated with the school walked into a number of rooms inside the building Tuesday and disrupted a student organization meeting with threatening comments, racial slurs, profane language and other offensive conduct.

Dean of Students Office offers support to students impacted.

UWPD said it has identified the two individuals involved. According to UWPD, the individuals are unaffiliated with the university and entered multiple rooms in the building.

“It was a life-changing event, emotionally, to witness,” said Greg Steinberger, who has served as the president and CEO of Hillel, the Jewish campus organization, for almost 25 years.

About 20 neo-Nazis marched up State Street from the UW-Madison campus to the Capitol on Saturday and gathered at James Madison Park in front of the Gates of Heaven synagogue, a historic 19th-century building run by the city parks department.

A WiscAlert sent at 7:50 a.m. asked the public to avoid the area around the building, which is located at 1415 Engineering Drive. Dane County dispatchers said they contacted by UW-Madison police at around 7:30 a.m. after a fire alarm in the building activated.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Engineering Hall was evacuated due to a fire Friday morning.

People were evacuated from University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Engineering Hall on Friday morning due to a fire, according to a campuswide alert.

Fire extinguished, classes in Engineering Hall canceled Friday.

The fire has been extinguished, and Friday classes in the building are canceled, per university reports.

A 10:22 a.m. WiscAlert urged students to avoid the Library Mall area as UWPD investigates a ‘suspicious package’ found there.

UW Hillel offers support to students impacted by ‘violent antisemitic incident.’

The incident occurred after a Nov. 7 vigil commemorating one month since the Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 terrorist attacks against Israel.

A group of UW-Madison students reported a rock being thrown at them following a vigil to support Israel on Tuesday.

According to the Madison Police Department (MPD), the students say the rock was thrown at them from a State Street building after the vigil. The group also reported being harassed with “profane and hateful language.”

Students in a software security class took part in an exercise run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In this scenario, they were dealing with how to respond to ransomware, which came through phishing emails.

Police said the incident occurred at around 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 13 in the 100 block of North Mills Street. The person allegedly entered the apartment, scared residents and caused a disturbance.

As officers began to search for the man, multiple resources were used to assist, including a BadgerSAFE alert at 8:50 p.m. that read:  Off Campus Alert Urgent – Police continue to search for the suspect in the Langdon area. Stay inside.

During their time on campus, about one in six students at UW-Madison will experience sexual assault, according to Director of Survivor Services Dr. Molly Caradonna. Most students will know someone who has experienced sexual assault or rape, Caradonna added.

UW-Madison officials said Tuesday that claims recently made on social media and shared by conservative commentator and former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch about antisemitic protests outside UW Hillel were “significantly exaggerated.”

The university referenced allegations swirling on social media in a statement Tuesday. Radio and TV Host Dana Loesch reported claims in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, of someone having to be escorted into Hillel because supporters of Hamas were rallying outside the building, screaming threats and cutting an Israeli flag with scissors.

The claim, amplified by conservative commentators like Dana Loesch, went viral on Twitter. UW-Madison and UWPD said the events described within were exaggerated.

Brandon Thompson, the 26-year-old charged with attacking and sexually assaulting a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last month, has pleaded not guilty to all of his charges.

During his arraignment, Brandon Thompson had a not guilty plea entered on his behalf by the Dane Co. court to first-degree sexual assault, first degree reckless injury, and strangulation and suffocation. Thompson, who is being held on a $1,000,000 bond, is due to return to court on December 1 for a status conference hearing.

Students say they know UWPD has certain protocols in place but it’s overwhelming to think officers can’t be all over campus at once. “Especially here on this campus it’s just so big,” student Lavneet Chawla said. “You never know who could have a firearm on them.”

The report, released Friday, Sept. 29, showed 25 reported on-campus rapes in 2022, with 16 in student housing. There were 19 reported on-campus rapes in 2021 and nine in 2020.

Authorities said Salgado-Arroyo and another man tackled the 20-year-old student as she walked home on West Dayton Street in 2011. They sexually assaulted her until a man on his balcony heard her screams, yelled out and the attackers ran off.