Public Safety

  • BREAKING: BUPD in search of information regarding Hinkle heist

    BREAKING: BUPD in search of information regarding Hinkle heist

    “On Saturday, March 21 at 1:16 a.m. five unidentified individuals gained unauthorized access to Hinkle Fieldhouse and left eleven minutes later with approximately $12,000 to $15,000 worth of ‘communication equipment’.”

  • Meet the candidates: Indiana primary midterms

    Meet the candidates: Indiana primary midterms

    The deadline for registering to vote is approaching on Monday, April 6, with the elections happening a month later on Tuesday, May 5.

  • All sled and done

    All sled and done

    A look into Butler’s snow day protocols.

  • Here’s what you need to know about weather affecting Butler classes

    Here’s what you need to know about weather affecting Butler classes

    Temperatures are predicted to drop to 7 degrees below zero Wednesday.

  • Letter to the Editor: BUPD chief addresses concern over student safety

    Letter to the Editor: BUPD chief addresses concern over student safety

    Chief of Public Safety John Conley addresses concern over student safety.

  • OPINION | Know your rights when dealing with the police

    Students and the rest of the community need to educate themselves about their rights with respect to the police. Last Tuesday, Butler University Police Department released a timely warning about a police impersonator. On Sept. 11, a man claiming to be a police officer stopped a student and had her complete a breathalyzer test.. The…

  • STAFF EDITORIAL | Where’s the transparency, BUPD?

    Published Sept. 25, 2012 Butler University Police Department has the power to arrest in certain areas outside of Butler’s campus. BUPD officers are also equipped with firearms and other tools used by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers. So why won’t BUPD release all incident reports to those who request them like other police forces do?…

  • Public safety report shows trend in campus crime

    Crime has gone down drastically in some cases on Butler University’s campus according to a report released by the university’s department of public safety. The 2009 Comprehensive Combined Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report provides students with a complete list of programs and services offered by the department as well as the number…

  • Campus alert system federally mandated

    Throughout the year, Butler University faculty, staff and students receive a sprinkling of “timely warnings” and emergency alert notifications regarding crime and other safety related events on campus. After a string of thefts hit Butler’s campus in the early morning hours of Sept. 15, Butler University Police Department released a “timely warning” at 7:16 a.m.,…