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Tempe campus has ASU's highest rate of sex crimes
ASU's own annual security reports show the Tempe campus recorded 30 rape reports, 33 fondling reports and 3 statutory rape reports from 2018 to 2021, more than any other ASU campus. Six sexual-violence reports there were classified as unfounded.
In ASU's 2019 student health survey, 6.2% of female students, 1.1% of male students and 4.9% of non-binary students said they experienced attempted or completed sexual violence in the previous year. National research cited in the report estimates nearly 80% of rapes and sexual assaults go unreported, so official counts likely understate the problem.
ASU's side / contextThe figures come from ASU's own Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, published by the ASU Police Department under the federal Clery Act.
