RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – VCU Police has concluded Operation Safer Streets, a campus safety initiative that ran from January through April and resulted in nearly as many traffic citations in three months as the entire 2024-25 school year.
The operation focused on increasing traffic enforcement, identifying crash hotspots and educating pedestrians after several fatal traffic incidents involving pedestrians on campus.
Since August, VCU Police has received 47 reports of people struck by vehicles while walking, biking or riding a scooter through its jurisdiction…