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Campus Crime Timeline

1989

Massachusetts passes an open campus police log law.

1990

The U.S. Congress passes Campus Security Act, which makes colleges responsible for releasing internal crime statistics.

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1995

Bud Riley becomes HUPD Chief.

1995

Riley hires George Kelling, a research fellow at the Kennedy School, to study the force. He issues a 55-page report on the status of the department. The verdict: things are good, but many in the department resist the move to community policing, which the report says is necessary for the force's improvement.

1995

HUPD officers are faced with serious crime on campus when a Dunster House junior murders her roommate and then kills herself.

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