Reports of violent crime on Harvard’s campus decreased by 52 percent between 2023 and 2024, according to data from the Harvard University Police Department released Wednesday.
Reports of hate crimes were also down in 2024, decreasing to from 10 in the previous year. But hate crimes attributed to religious motivation jumped from two in 2023 to five in 2024.
The data was released in compliance with the Clery Act, a federal law requiring universities that receive federal funding to publish annual data on campus crime. The figures in the report only cover crimes the University is required to disclose under the Clery Act, which excludes crimes like simple assaults and theft unless they are deemed hate crimes…