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William Rainey Harper's Index

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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