The biggest complaint UA students have, according to the police website, is bike theft. With hundreds of bikes on campus at the same time, it’s impossible to police the bike racks behind and in front of every building, and for this reason, students would be wise to refrain from bringing expensive bikes to campus. Laptops and backpacks often get stolen, as well, but thankfully, personal safety is a little better. The UA has placed emergency blue-light phones sporadically throughout the square mile of campus, to assist students in potential danger; even if a crime victim is unable to talk into the phone, an officer will respond to the location if the button is pressed. Some students also take advantage of the UA’s Safe Ride program, which taxis students around campus for free.
Recently, the UAPD received additional funding to hire more bicycle police and issued taser guns to its officers. Due to a campus tragedy in 2002, when a disgruntled student in the nursing college shot and killed three professors before ending his own life, the University has taken action by giving faculty certain powers to remove a student if they feel threatened over an issue such as a grade dispute. Cases like that are rare, however, and there hasn’t been a problem since. Campus alerts, annual safety and security reports, and sex offender information can be viewed at the UAPD home page: uapd.arizona.edu. The UA campus, in general, is very safe for people of all ages and genders. Aside from the occasional fiesty homeless person raising a ruckus in the library's computer labs and a truck full of frat bros cat-calling pedestrians, not much in the way of danger or crime happens at the UA.
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