Annual Security Report
Definitions
On-Campus: Any building or property owned or controlled by an institution of higher education within the same reasonable contiguous geographic area of the institution and use by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to, the institution’s educational purpose, including residence halls and property within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the institution that is owned by the institution but is controlled by another person, is frequently used by students, and supports institutional purpose such as a food or other retail vendor.
Residence Halls: A subset of “on-campus” crimes, which include only those crimes that were reported to have occurred in dormitories or other residential facilities for students on campus.
Non-Campus: Any building or property owned or controlled by a student organization officially recognized by the institution and any building or property (other than a branch campus) owned or controlled by an institution of higher education that is used in direct support of, or in relation to, the institution’s educational purpose, is frequently used by students and is not within the same reasonably contiguous area of the institution.
Public Property: All public property, including thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks, and parking facilities, and is within the campus, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus.
Murder/Non-Negligent Manslaughter: the willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another. NOTE: Deaths caused by negligence, attempts to kill, assaults to kill, suicides, accidental deaths, and justifiable homicides are excluded.
Negligent Manslaughter: the killing of another person through gross negligence.
Forcible and Non-Forcible Sex Offenses:
-Forcible Sex Offenses is any sexual act directed against another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent. This includes forcible rape, forcible sodomy, sexual assault with an object and forcible fondling.
- Non-Forcible Sex Offenses are acts of unlawful, non-forcible sexual intercourse which includes incest and statutory rape.
Robbery: the taking or attempting to take anything from value of the care, custody or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.
Aggravated Assault: an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm. It is not necessary that injury results from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife or other weapon is used which could or probably would results in a serious potential injury if the crime were successfully completed.
Burglary: the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft. For reporting purposes this definition includes: unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or a felony; breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking; safecracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned
Motor Vehicle Theft: the theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. (classify as motor vehicle theft all cases where automobiles are taken by persons not having lawful access, even though the vehicles are later abandoned – including joy riding)
Arson: the willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, or personal property of another kind.
Liquor Law Violations: the violations of laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession or use of alcoholic beverages (driving under the influence or drunkenness are not included in this definition).
Drug Abuse Violations: the violations of laws or ordinances prohibiting the unlawful possession, sale, growing, manufacturing, distribution, and/or use of certain controlled substances and the equipment or devices utilized in their preparation and/or use.
Weapon Law Violations: violations of laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacturing, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, concealment, or use of firearms, cutting instruments, explosives,
incendiary devices, or other deadly weapons.
Hate Crime Definitions
Hate Crimes: Colorado College is also required to report statistics for hate (bias) related crimes by type of bias as defined below for the following classifications; murder/non-negligent manslaughter, sex offenses (forcible and non-forcible), robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson, liquor law violations, drug abuse violations, and weapon law violations (see definitions previously mentioned) and larceny, vandalism, intimidation, and simple assault (see definitions below).
Larceny: the unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another.
Vandalism: to willfully or maliciously destroy, injure, disfigure, or deface any public or private property, real or personal, without the consent of the owner or person having custody or control by cutting, tearing, breaking, marking, painting, drawing, covering with filth, or any other such means as may be specified by local law.
Intimidation: to unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening works and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.
Simple Assault: an unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration or loss of consciousness.
If a hate crime occurs where there is an incident involving intimidation, vandalism, larceny, simple assault or other bodily injury, the law required that the statistic be reported as a hate crime even though there is no requirement to report the crime classification in any other area of the compliance document.
A hate or bias related is not a separate, distinct crime, but is the commission of a criminal offense which was motivated by the offenders’ bias. For example, a subject assaults a victim, which is a crime. If the facts of the case indicate that the offender was motivated to commit the offense because of his bias against the victim’s race, sexual orientation, etc., the assault is then also classified as a hate/bias crime.