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Indiana University Public Safety announced its 2026 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report on Thursday, with new data comparing 2025 crime with statistics for 2024 and 2023.
The report features counts for 22 categories of crime, including arrests and referrals across all IU campuses.
What was in Bloomington’s report?
Arrests for liquor violations on the Bloomington campus more than doubled, rising from 45 in 2024 to 102 in 2025. However, on-campus liquor referrals fell by hundreds, from 1,165 in 2024 to 741 in 2025.
Campus drug violation arrests remained consistent, dropping to 21 in 2025, from 22 in 2024. On-campus drug violation referrals fell to 49 in 2025 from 68 in 2024.
34 rapes were reported on campus in 2025, the same number as in 2024, with 28 occurring in residential buildings. Nine rapes were reported taking place in a non-campus building — also the same number from 2024. According to the report, cases of on-campus fondling — unwanted contact with a victim’s clothed or unclothed body — fell from 26 in 2024 to 14 in 2025.
Cases of on-campus domestic violence nearly doubled, rising to 26 in 2025 from 14 in 2024. 17 of those cases occurred in residential buildings. However, the report lists zero dating violence cases for 2025. There were 11 on-campus dating violence cases in 2024, with seven occurring on campus.
Domestic violence is defined as violence committed by a victim’s current or former spouse or intimate partner or happening between two individuals who may have a child, may be cohabitating and other definitions under Indiana family violence laws, according to the report.
Dating violence is violence committed by a person who is in or has had a social relationship with the other individual, according to the report, and “does not include acts covered in the definition of domestic violence.”
There were 101 cases of on-campus stalking in 2025, a decrease of six from 2024. 52 occurred in a campus residential building.
There were three more on-campus aggravated assaults in 2025 than 2024, rising to 16 from 13. There were 14 non-campus aggravated assaults reported, up eight from 2024 and up 11 from 2023.
Burglary, which includes unlawful entry to commit a felony or theft, increased to 42 on-campus instances in 2025, up from 37 in 2024. There were also 19 non-campus burglary reports, up from 14 in 2024.
Only two robberies, the direct taking of property from a person or persons using force or fear, were reported and on-campus motor vehicle thefts fell dramatically with 34 reported in 2025 from 66 in 2024.
According to the report, there were 24 instances of hazing in 2025. 20 occurred in non-campus buildings and four occurred on campus. The 2024 Stop Campus Hazing Act amended the Clery Campus Safety Act to require tracking of hazing reports, making the 2025 report the first to include the statistic.
Four hate crimes were reported, with three being vandalisms and one battery. The battery was motivated by gender and occurred on campus, according to the report. Two vandalisms characterized by bias against race were committed, both on campus and one in a campus residential building. One vandalism driven by bias against national origin also happened on campus.
There were three instances of on-campus arson reported, with two in residential facilities.
What is the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act?
The data is collected due to the Clery Act of 1990, which requires higher education institutions to report and release campus crime data, including location. It also requires universities to publicly outline the procedures they put into place to improve campus safety.
The act also guarantees resources for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, including prevention education, access to counseling services and more.
Crimes must occur on or directly next to campus, or in a university-owned building, to be reported.
