William Rainey Harper's Index
Police squad
Full-time University of Chicago Police Department officers: 53
Part-timers, many of whom are full-time City of Chicago cops: 87
UCPD marked vehicles: 20
Square miles the UCPD covers, from 39th Street to 64th street and Cottage Grove to Lake Shore Drive: 4
White emergency phones in the neighborhood that connect directly to University police: 300
Burglaries reported in 2003, the most recent available statistics: 57
Sex offenses reported in 2003: 3
Percentage drop in homicides from 1999 (9) to 2003 (0): 100
April 2005 arrests
for group attacks in Hyde Park, ten of which were local high schoolers:
33