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MARCH 15, 2016

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TBI COLLEGE CRIME STUDY REVEALS CONTINUED DECREASE IN OVERALL CAMPUS CRIME
ANNUAL REPORT SHOWS INCREASE IN FORCIBLE SEX OFFENSES YEAR TO YEAR, INCLUDING REPORTED RAPES

NASHVILLE Today, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation released to the public its 2015 Crime on Campus report. The
annual study compiles crime data submitted to TBI by the states colleges and universities through the Tennessee Incident
Based Reporting System (TIBRS). Among the reports findings:

Crime reported by Tennessee colleges and universities decreased by 7.0% from

2014 to 2015.

29% of all 2015 offenses reported were categorized as Larceny/Theft.

Assault Offenses increased slightly, by 1.4%, between 2014 and 2015.

The overall category of Sex Offenses-Forcible increased by 26.6% in 2015, which

includes an increase in the number of reported rapes from 51 in 2014 to 56 in 2015.
As always, the TBI strongly discourages the comparison of one institutions statistics to
another. The factors impacting crime vary from community to community and
rudimentary comparisons will most likely result in inaccurate and generalized
conclusions of the relative safety of one campus over another.
The full Crime on Campus report, along with similar studies dating back to 2001, is
available online for review at http://tn.gov/tbi/article/recent-publications.
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