Crime on Harvard's campus appears to have declined, despite Trump claims

The editorial board of Harvard’s student newspaper blasted the Trump administration’s claim that crime at the university has “drastically risen,” pointing to campus police data showing that crime reports have dropped over the past year.

In June, the White House claimed that crime at Harvard University — including violent crime — has “drastically risen in recent years.”

The administration said Harvard has become an “unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals.”

But, as the editorial from The Harvard Crimson highlighted, recent data from the Harvard University Police Department shows the opposite.

The data from police shows that violent crime decreased by more than 50% between 2023 and 2024. While