{"id":13550,"date":"2018-03-15T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=13550"},"modified":"2018-03-15T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T15:01:22","slug":"tbi-releases-crime-on-campus-2017-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2018\/03\/15\/tbi-releases-crime-on-campus-2017-study\/","title":{"rendered":"TBI releases &#8220;Crime on Campus 2017&#8221; Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-60846\" title=\"Tennessee Bureau of Investigation \" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tbi-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Bureau of Investigation\" width=\"148\" height=\"140\"><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released to the public its annual crime study detailing the volume and nature of crime on the state\u2019s college and university campuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Crime on Campus 2017\u2019 compiles data submitted to TBI by the state\u2019s colleges, universities, and law enforcement agencies through the Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System (TIBRS).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TBI-Crime-on-Campus-2017-Study.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-415173\" title=\"TBI - Crime on Campus 2017 Study\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TBI-Crime-on-Campus-2017-Study-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"TBI - Crime on Campus 2017 Study\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Among the report\u2019s findings<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall, crime reported by Tennessee\u2019s colleges and universities decreased by 2.8% from 2016 to 2017.<\/li>\n<li>In total, 26.8% of all 2017 offenses reported were categorized as Larceny\/Theft.<\/li>\n<li>Robbery offenses decreased significantly, by 55.2%, from 29 in 2016 to 13 in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Assault Offenses decreased by 13.7% year-to-year.<\/li>\n<li>The overall category of \u201cSex Offenses-Forcible\u201d decreased by 26% in 2017. There was a 27% decrease in reported Rape offenses, from 63 in 2016 to 46 in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Reported DUI offenses increased by 60.9% year-to-year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, the TBI strongly discourages the comparison of one institution\u2019s statistics to another. The factors impacting crime vary from community to community and rudimentary comparisons will most like result in inaccurate, generalized, and unfair conclusions of the perceived \u2018safety\u2019 of one campus over another. It is more helpful for context, in the TBI\u2019s assessment, to compare an institution\u2019s data over the course of several years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report will hopefully assist law enforcement, institution administrations, and government officials in planning their efforts in the fight against crime and continue to create an awareness that crime exists as a threat in our communities,\u201d said TBI Director Mark Gwyn.<\/p>\n<p>The full 2017 \u2018Crime on Campus\u2019 report, along with similar studies dating back to 2001, is available for review online: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tn.gov\/tbi\" >http:\/\/www.tn.gov\/tbi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released to the public its annual crime study detailing the volume and nature of crime on the state\u2019s college and university campuses. \u2018Crime on Campus 2017\u2019 compiles data submitted to TBI by the state\u2019s colleges, universities, and law enforcement agencies through the Tennessee Incident Based Reporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6318,6313,3066,9689,284,6316,12033,1842,261,1841,10376,1403,10377],"class_list":["post-13550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-assault","tag-crime-on-campus-report","tag-dui","tag-mark-gwyn","tag-nashville-tn","tag-rape","tag-robbery","tag-tbi","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-bureau-of-investigation","tag-tennessee-incident-based-reporting-system","tag-theft","tag-tibrs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13551,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13550\/revisions\/13551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}