After ten years of working at the department as a captain, Margo Bennett has been appointed the new UCPD chief of police. Read More…
A bomb threat was called in Thursday morning claiming there were explosives at Cal State Los Angeles and UC Berkeley. Read More…
UC Berkeley experienced a brief power disruption on Wednesday evening after an explosion occurred on the south side of campus.
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The number of reported rapes in Berkeley spiked in 2012, nearly doubling 2011’s total. Crime statistics from 2012, presented by Berkeley police officers to the City Council in a special workshop last Tuesday, show a rise in reported rapes from 20 in 2011 to 39 in 2012. Read More…
Finals and stress are synonymous at UC Berkeley. Academic standards at the campus — ranked first among public universities by U.S. News & World Report — are predictably high, and the consequent pressure comes to a head during finals week. Read More…
UCPD announced Monday the arrest of a suspect for a series of Sproul Plaza robberies that took place in September. Read More…
Almost exactly one year later, a walkout planned for Thursday on campus hopes to rekindle the spirit of 2011′s Occupy Cal protest. Read More…
UCPD announced the release of its annual campus crime statistics report Friday, showing an increase in the number of sexual offenses reported on campus in 2011 and a significant decrease in the number of reported burglaries.
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ALBANY, Calif. — UCPD blocked off vehicle access to the encampment on UC-owned land in Albany known as the Gill Tract early Wednesday morning, causing protesters to fear their camp would be raided. The west entrance to the land on Jackson Street was blockaded with a concrete barrier in front of a fence Read More…
UCPD confirmed Wednesday morning that the UC Berkeley student who fell from a window in Unit 2 Tuesday night was pronounced dead at the scene, in an incident the department is investigating as suicide. At around 9:48 p.m. on Tuesday, officers responded to the Unit 2 residence hall after receiving Read More…
