‌Facts, Stats & Reports

The VCU Police Department is dedicated to fostering a safe, transparent campus environment, while working to enhance the safety of VCU’s campuses and surrounding communities.

The Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act) is a federal law that promotes transparency around campus safety. It requires colleges and universities to share information about crime and fire safety with their campus communities.

The information below is a central resource for Clery Act compliance and reporting. By providing access to the university’s Daily Crime and Fire Log and Annual Security and Fire Safety Reports (ASR), our goal is to ensure that students, faculty, staff and visitors are informed and empowered to make decisions that enhance personal and community safety.

Whether you’re looking to review recent incidents, understand reporting options or learn more about safety policies and prevention efforts, this page is here to help you stay informed and engaged.

The Daily Crime and Fire Log is available for public viewing at the VCU Police Department Headquarters, located at 224 E. Broad Street on the Monroe Park Campus, and at 401 N. 12th Street, Suite 2-800, on the MCV Campus. Copies of the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report are also available upon request from the VCU Police Department.

Separately, VCU Police conduct regular reviews of the department’s training, hiring, use of force, citizen contact, community complaints and impartial policing practices. These reviews help ensure our department meets the highest standards of campus law enforcement accreditation and informs decision-making by police leadership.

Crime Alerts, Public Safety Advisories and VCU Alert emergency notifications

Timely, actionable information is a key tool to keep the VCU and VCU Health community safe. To empower community members to make informed decisions about their own safety, VCU Police utilize several communication methods:

VCU Crime Alerts: Public safety officials – typically VCU Police – issue timely warning crime alerts to notify the campus community of Clery Act reportable crimes that may pose a serious or ongoing threat to the campus campuses.
Public Safety Advisories (PSA): Messages sent directly to VCU email addresses that relay information to VCU community members about crime trends or issues that, in the view of police leadership, pose a risk to personal safety or present operational challenges to their daily lives.
VCU Alert text message and email notifications: Communicate active incidents (like crime, extreme weather, power outages or major traffic disruptions) that may pose a safety risk or operational impact to community members. They provide concise, direct information about the situation and any protective actions that can immediately help community members make informed decisions about their safety in the moment.

Virginia Community Policing Data Collection Act

Effective July 1, 2021, the Virginia Community Policing Act requires that each time a law-enforcement officer stops a driver of a motor vehicle, stops and frisks a person based on reasonable suspicion, or temporarily detains a person during any other investigatory stop, such officer must collect the following data based on the officer’s observation or information provided to the officer by the person stopped: (i) the race, ethnicity, age, gender of the person stopped, and whether the person stopped spoke English; (ii) the reason for the stop; (iii) the location of the stop; (iv) whether a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or whether any person was arrested; (iv) if a warning, written citation or summons was issued or an arrest was made, the warning provided, violation charged, or crime charged; (vi) whether the vehicle or any person was searched; and (vii) whether the law-enforcement officer used physical force against any person and whether any person used physical force against any officers.

As required by Va. Code § 15.2-1722.1, the Community Policing data that has been forwarded by VCU Police Department for inclusion in the Community Policing Reporting Database is available to the public online at: https://data.virginia.gov/pages/open-data-portal-stories. In order to view VCU Police Department’s reported data, select the applicable agency filter provided within each chart that appears under the section “Statewide Data.”