Last week, Georgetown released its annual reports summing up crime and fire safety issues on its various campuses. These reports, which were posted on the Georgetown Safety and Environmental Management website, include lengthy summaries of campus procedures and safety policies, before getting to a series of charts which sum up how 2010 compares to previous years in terms of fire preparedness, actual fires, and criminal activity.

According to the Fire Safety Report, 2010 witnessed three fires in Main Campus residence halls—one case of “overcooked food” (and cardboard) in Harbin and trash can fires in Darnall and Reynolds. Although this was an increase in quantity from 2009, it was a significant decrease in size and damages, as 2009′s singular incident was the December New South fire which resulted in, according to the report, over $250,000 worth of damages.

Perhaps of more interest, however, are the statistics included in the report about the function of the University’s fire alert systems. This issue was brought into focus in October of 2010, when the failure of the “audible portion” of Harbin’s fire alarms hindered the building’s evacuation during Georgetown’s most famous drug bust. Apparently the University made good on its promise to check the systems, because, according to the report, every residence hall has functioning “audible evacuation alarms.”

The report also included a section outlining the University’s plans for future fire safety improvements. These include “Building-specific Occupant Emergency Plans” for dorms, and the development of an online system for reporting fires and hazards.

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Earlier this month, the Department of Public Safety released its Annual Crime Report. Buried in the 30 plus pages of security policy and procedure, which are required by the Clery Act, are numbers on campus crimes for the 2009 calendar year.

A variety of “Category A” violations, including those for noise, party hosting, disorderly conduct, and personal responsibility, decreased compared to the previous year. (Noise violations, for example, went down from 556 to 337.)

The decrease in party hosting violations is especially eye-catching; the number decreased from 147 to 26—a more than 80 percent drop—compared to 2008.

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Last night, the Department of Public Safety released its Annual Crime Report [PDF] and buried in the 30-plus pages of explanation of campus policing procedures are some pretty interesting statistics about campus crime during the 2008 calendar year.  Chief among these interesting stats? The fact hat the number of alcohol violations issued by DPS shot up dramatically in 2008.

In 2008, DPS issued 1335 alcohol violations.  That’s an increase of 811—or 161 percent—over the previous year’s 512 alcohol violations.

Granted, 2007 saw an abnormally low number of alcohol violations.  But 2008′s figure is still 82 percent higher than the average number of alcohol violations issued during the previous six years, 731 alcohol violations per year.

The data is presented in the report without comment, so it’s hard to know what the cause of the drastic increase in alcohol violations is.  We’ve asked DPS to explain the jump, and we’ll let you know when we hear from them.

Besides alcohol violations, DPS’s stats remained fairly level during 2008.  The total number of crimes reported (not including drug or alcohol violations), increased slightly from 241 to 257.

Buried in the Jack the Bulldog ascension story was the fact that DPS’s Crime Awareness Report made Georgetown seem more like the Thunderdome than it actually is. The report said 7 prohibited weapons were found, but according to DPS Director Jeffrey Van Slyke, that should actually say prohibited items–things like a Foreman grill in a dorm room or an illegal lamp.

So they didn’t find your Tek-9Tec-9. But there’s also bad news: Georgetown’s alcohol violations haven’t dropped as much as the report suggests. In 2005, there were 882, and in 2006, there were 900. Last year there were only 512, but John Barleycorn isn’t dead–Georgetown just started only reporting the incidents it has to under federal law, where in the past it included some it didn’t.