BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
Daily Post Staff Writer
The number of hate crimes reported at Stanford last year decreased after a dramatic spike related to the war in Gaza, according to a new safety report.
The university had two hate crimes last year, down from 12 hate crimes in 2024 and 24 hate crimes in 2023, the report said.
Last year’s hate crimes were a theft and an assault, the report said.
Someone stole a mezuzah from the door of a dorm on Rosh Hashanah, and another person yelled at a student for praying and then shoved the student, the report said.
That’s a far cry from 2024, when graffitied swastikas, torn up signs and shoving among students was a near monthly occurrence. Students spit on each other, and a driver hit a Muslim student with his car, the previous safety report said.
Sex crimes also went down last year – from 64 in 2023 to 46 in 2024 to 34 last year. Some of the cases reported in 2023 were incidents that happened more than a decade earlier, but the university counts crimes in the year they are reported.
Reports of stalking totaled 47 last year, down from 58 in 2024 and 55 in 2023.
Burglaries went from 28 in 2023 to 31 in 2024 to 18 last year, and robberies went from nine to two to zero over the last three years.
Thefts were steady: 75 e-bikes, 78 electric scooters, 14 golf carts, nine cars, four electric skateboards and three motorcycles were reported stolen last year.
Stanford is required to report the crime statistics as part of the federal Clery Act.
The report includes hazing for the first time, defined as “any activity that subjects someone joining or participating in a group to humiliation, degradation, abuse, or unreasonable risk of injury, regardless of that person’s willingness to participate.
Stanford had seven hazing reports last year.
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