Federal officials are auditing Roxbury Community College for suspected lapses in its reporting of crimes committed on campus - the latest in a series of controversies for college president Terrence Gomes. Officials with the US Department of Education were expected to arrive on campus Tuesday seeking to find out why the college has failed to report serious allegations of crimes on campus. The officials have unofficially learned of at least three reports by students of such crimes, including sexual assault, over the past several years, according to a person familiar with the inquiry. Federal law requires that allegations of all felony-level crimes be sent to police to investigate. In addition, the federal Clery Act requires all colleges and universities to submit an annual campus crime report. Since 2008, the college has reported only six on-campus crimes to federal officials - one robbery and five aggravated assaults, characterized by a college official as fistfights, documents provided the Globe show. Those numbers, seen as unusually low for an urban campus, and the absence of more major offenses drew the attention of federal investigators, according to a person familiar with the inquiry. http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...erreporting_of_on_campus_crime/?p1=News_links The big red flag on how RCC considers safety of their students is that there are no sworn LE on campus only ISO's and they work for the Public Safety/Facilities Department. This is great for the administrators because the ISO's don't have the authority to to enforce anything but college policy violations. I'll bet that all criminal incidents go to a non-LE administrator and not BPD directly. The suits filter what gets reported and fudge their Cleary Report.
Hah! They will be writing a check for $55,000. Doesn't matter if you have police, security, or nobody doing the public safety function. You are still required to have every person who a student *MIGHT* report a crime to properly trained. Every professor, counselor, coach, hall director, nurse, etc. Every one of those complaints goes into your Clery stats, even if there is no investigation.
I've got a shoulder patch from the RCC Campus Police. IF they ever truly existed, it was short lived and probably before they moved to the campus at Tremont and Columbus. I didn't know they had transitioned to ISOs. I thought it was still contract folks. On the $$$$ USM! Schools for years played with the numbers and if you check websites as often as I do, you'll notice just how many schools have let years go by without updating the stats. (I've seen some in the past few months with the years 2006-2008 displayed. REALLY?) That's not to say they don't have accurate figures available, they just make people work harder to see them. Fine 'em enough, slowly many schools comply.
Not to hijack the thread... We were given the task of improving our Clery compliance a few years back, and we had to expend a significant amount of time, money and effort to do so. As one example of how things work, we have 26 sworn police officers... but we have over 500 Campus Security Authorities, who must receive documented training every year, pass a formal test on their duties every year, and must report any crimes they know of, even those with anonymous victims or where the victim does not want police attention. For another example, our Annual Security Report went from 6 pages to 22: http://www.usm.edu/sites/default/fi...rtment/pdf/annual_security_report_2011-12.pdf (if you're interested in that sort of thing) And, seriously, Tremont and Columbus? They better not forget public properties abutting campus, either.
I'm not sure HOW many security authorities we have. I'm not sure even God knows and he's the chief! Or something like that. As for public properties, the Islamic Society of Boston is right behind the campus. I haven't seen TERRORISM as a clery catagory, but I haven't looked lately!
Once again... Kilvinsky and I will be glad to step in and straighten this BS out! We'll have a Police Department there under CH73/s.18 etc...(Phuc SSPO) and they'll be armed and trained and have pretty uniforms! Just say the word...
At Roxbury Community College, allegations of sex crimes and evidence of secrecy Failure to report 2003 case part of wider pattern at Roxbury college Then: “He kept calling me.” “He would leave notes on my car asking ‘if we could date?’ ” “He said, ‘I know where you live. … No one is going to believe anything that you say.’ ” One night in 2003, Brown-West found the student on campus and grabbed her from behind, the complaint says. She remembers his cologne, then his hands: one gripping her breast, the other between her legs. He stopped, according to the student, only when he heard the nearby jangle of a janitor’s keys. The student, now 49 and living in Dorchester, told the Globe she fogged up on antidepressants after the alleged assault. A single mother, she struggled to care for her son. She flunked her classes and dropped out. “I was at RCC,” said the woman, who did not want her name used. “But I was invisible.” On Aug. 26, 2010, she decided to change that. She hand-delivered the complaint to the college and later discussed the issue in person with RCC officials. Under the federal Clery Act, RCC should have included her accusation in a tally of serious criminal allegations at the college, which is required to report crime statistics annually to the US Department of Education. The law is designed to protect students and victims by preventing schools from hiding evidence of potential crimes. But the school did not report any sex-crime allegations that year. The student remained invisible. RCC’s failure to respond appropriately was not an isolated incident. Recently, college employees approached the Department of Education with suspicions that it might represent a pattern. The department is now investigating the school for potential lapses in crime reporting. Typical college administration.... Sworn police are not needed because nothing ever happens on a college campus. This place needs a real police force augmented by ISO's to patrol this place. The current system is obviously not working. http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...nce-secrecy/DNuH1eDTRw6TkkzaWwvu1K/story.html
They have contract security in one of the worst neighborhoods in Boston! I am not at all suprised that they have screwed up clery numbers
