{"id":135,"date":"2017-11-29T15:59:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/security\/prevention_safety\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:24:04","slug":"crime-prevention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/crime-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime Prevention and Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Safety Video<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For more detailed information, please watch our safety videos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This Matters at Mac &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1g0lMgCmFY\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/X1g0lMgCmFY<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/14D2fiiBfsygcEk8YNc8IEK5gkMomg9U4\/view?usp=sharing\">Macalester ALICE Training Video 2026 <\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crime Prevention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Crime Prevention is the anticipation, the recognition, and the appraisal of a crime risk and the initiation of action to remove or reduce it&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crime is a societal issue that can only be properly addressed by the entire campus community: Students, faculty, staff, visitors and neighbors. &nbsp;Making campus safety a shared responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historically, the primary goal of crime prevention was apprehension. &nbsp;Although this is still important, the goal of preventing the crime and also reducing the cost of crime has become the focus. &nbsp;In order for a crime to occur, three elements must exist &#8211; desire, ability and opportunity. &nbsp;While a person may &#8220;want to&#8221; and &#8220;have the ability to&#8221; commit a crime, if we don&#8217;t give them the &#8220;opportunity to&#8221;, no crime can be committed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our goal is to provide the campus community with information to help make decisions in their every day lives to reduce the opportunity for crime to occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prevention Tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/crime-prevention\/crime-prevention-tips\/#personalsafety\">Personal Safety<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/crime-prevention\/crime-prevention-tips\/#property\">Valuables and Property<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/crime-prevention\/crime-prevention-tips\/#identity\">Identity Theft<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/crime-prevention\/crime-prevention-tips\/#phonecalls\">Obscene or Harassing Calls<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/crime-prevention\/crime-prevention-tips\/#reshalls\">Residence Halls<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/crime-prevention\/bike_theft_prevention\/\">Bike Theft Prevention<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safety Video For more detailed information, please watch our safety videos Crime Prevention is the anticipation, the recognition, and the appraisal of a crime risk and the initiation of action to remove or reduce it&#8221;. Crime is a societal issue that can only be properly addressed by the entire campus community: Students, faculty, staff, visitors [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/public-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}