Clery Report misses the mark

Zach Henson Editor-in-Chief The Federal Clery Act requires most universities to publicize an annual safety report detailing yearly crime statistics for their campuses. As a student and journalist, I find this system highly flawed and the reports themselves shockingly incomplete. According to Susan Sarapin, an associate professor of journalism and specialist in media law, research shows that around 20 percent of college females are sexually assaulted each year. For a campus the size of Troy’s, this means about 250 sexual assaults happen on campus in a given year. In 2017,…

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