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Boston University Police Department. This week’s crime logs include an attempted kidnapping, a motor vehicle accident and a finger laceration. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Campus Crime Logs: Oct. 6-12

Sam Mandala October 15, 2024
Boston University police report for the week of Oct. 6-12.
Boston University Police Department. Crime logs from Aug. 25 to Aug. 28 include a public demonstration, larceny and assault and battery. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Campus Crime Logs: Aug. 25 – Aug. 28

Charlie Johnson September 3, 2024
Campus Crime Logs: Aug. 25 - Aug. 28
Agganis Arena at Boston University. A motor vehicle accident occurred Tuesday afternoon, resulting in one of the cars overturning after colliding with a parked vehicle. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Vehicle collision causes temporary traffic disruption on Commonwealth Avenue

Gia Shin May 8, 2024
A motor vehicle accident occurred at 915 Commonwealth Ave. Tuesday afternoon, leading to temporary traffic delays along the street.
BUPD

BU searches for a new chief of BUPD

Sydney Topf April 26, 2023
Boston University announced a search committee on April 7 to find a new chief of the Boston University Police Department after the University promoted current Police Chief Kelly Nee to the new position of Chief Safety, Security and Preparedness Officer.
Boston Police Station

Campus Crime Logs: April 12 – 18

Bailey Scott April 19, 2023
This week’s crime logs include larceny, assault and battery, a gas and chemical event, threats, harassment, a person with a weapon, a fight, noise complaints, a well being check and a suspicious person.
A Boston University Police car.

Campus Crime Logs: April 5 – 11

Bailey Scott April 13, 2023
This week’s crime logs include two false threats, a suspicious & unwanted person, elevator entrapment, a suspicious vehicle, a person with weapon, a group disturbance, larceny, a suspicious package, other service request and a fight in progress.
The Boston University Police headquarters.

Campus Crime Logs: March 15 – 21

Bailey Scott March 22, 2023
This week's crime logs include vandalism, larceny, a noise complaint, a suspicious & unwanted person, domestic disturbance, a hawk in Warren, extortion, a hit pedestrian, criminal harassment, BUPD assistance in student eviction and a suspicious package.
The Boston University Police sign.

Campus Crime Logs: Feb. 15 – 21

Bailey Scott February 23, 2023
Incidents this week include a death investigation, larceny, a breaking-and-entering alarm, suspicious person, a hit-and-run and graffiti.
Crime Log

Campus crime logs: Jan. 18 – 23

Bailey Scott January 25, 2023

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department’s crime logs from Jan. 18-23.   Threat to commit crime at 635 Commonwealth Ave. On Monday, Jan. 23, between...

Parking garage at night. Boston University sent out an Emergency Alert Thursday after a student was robbed at gunpoint inside the parking garage at 121 Dummer St. in Brookline. COURTESY OF PIQSELS

BU student reports robbery at gunpoint

Vanessa Bartlett March 18, 2021
A Boston University student reported that they were robbed at gunpoint inside the parking garage at 121 Dummer St. in Brookline at approximately 3:20 a.m. Thursday, according to an Emergency Alert email sent to the BU community.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: The BUPD — Part 6

Bini Ollivier-Yamin September 21, 2020
Her story is one of many incidents of the administration refusing to take survivors seriously and properly punish rapists and predators. This negligence extends to the BUPD. 
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: The BUPD — Part 3

Bini Ollivier-Yamin September 2, 2020
The idea that BUPD is magically exempt from all the bad that municipal police officers unleash into the world simply because they are privately employed by a university, however, is emphatically false.
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