Just weeks after a Threat to Life warning prompted UW-Whitewater students to “RUN, HIDE, FIGHT,” the UW-W Police Department released its annual Security & Fire Safety Report (ASFR). The report provides a closer look at long-term safety trends across both the Whitewater and Rock County campuses. Containing information from 2025, as well as 2024 and 2023 for comparison, the charts detail a wide variety of crime statistics ranging from sexual assault and liquor violations to motor vehicle theft.
Required by the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, the report provides information about campus crime and safety policies. UW-Whitewater Police Chief Matt Kiederlen described it as “kind of a one-stop shop” for finding campus policies, rules and regulations that govern expectations on campus.
The document reveals that the most frequently recorded offenses were Liquor Law Violation Referrals in residence halls, totaling 293 instances in 2025 — a slight decrease from 335 instances in 2024, and 309 in 2023…