Volume 94, No.6, November-December 2008

Duke Magazine-Crime Happens by Bridget Booher

Safety in Numbers

68 Percent of colleges that plan to deploy new/ upgraded emergency-alert systems in 2008-09, according to Campus Safety magazine
7 Outdoor warning sirens installed this past summer at Duke
425,000 Cost in dollars to buy and install the siren system
650 Surveillance cameras around campus and the medical center
500 Emergency help phones around campus
150 Duke University Police Department (DUPD) officers assigned to campus patrol duty
600 Average number of calls received by Duke EMS per year
3 Average time, in minutes, it takes for first responders to arrive at scene of reported crime or emergency
15 Apartment complexes occupied by Duke students off West Campus
28 Daily roundtrip shuttle loops to those apartment complexes
57 Laptops missing in 2007 (with cell phones and iPods, the items most often reported lost or stolen)
0 Cost to members of the Duke community to have valuables engraved by the DUPD