PSafe report shows decrease in liquor violations, includes new hazing data

The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, recently released by the University’s Department of Public Safety, showed a steady decrease in judicial referrals for liquor law violations over the past three years and an increase in judicial referrals for drug law violations in 2025. Out of the categories of crime required to be reported under the Clery act, motor vehicle theft continued to be the most reported category on campus and in the general vicinity. 

Data on hazing incidents were published in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for the first time, in accordance with the federal Stop Campus Hazing Act signed into law in December 2024. A total of four criminal offenses related to hazing were reported, with two occurring on campus and two from non-campus buildings or property in 2025. The previous report was the first to include information on official University hazing policy, although it had not yet aggregated data on hazing incidents. The report contains data from 2023, 2024, and 2025, as mandated by the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act. 

In 2025, 125 judicial referrals for liquor law violations were reported, reflecting a continued decrease from 218 in 2024 and 262 in 2023. Notably, the number of judicial referrals for liquor law violations on non-campus building or property increased more than tenfold compared to the previous year: 37 referrals were issued in 2025, up from three in 2024 and none in 2023. The number of judicial referrals from residential facilities declined from previous years.

Last year also saw a marked increase in judicial referrals issued for drug law violations, with 15 referrals issued in 2025 compared to three in 2024 and four in 2023, respectively. All 15 reportedly took place in residential facilities, while the majority of drug law violations took place off-campus in previous years.

Two arrests for weapons law violations and one arrest for drug law violations were noted in the overall crime statistics for 2025.

A total of 60 criminal offenses occurred in 2025, with motor vehicle thefts continuing to be the most frequent type of crime committed, despite a decrease from the past year. Theft of e-bikes on campus accounted for the majority of motor vehicle theft cases with 27 cases, the next being golf carts with eight cases. Since June 1, 2026, e-bikes have been banned on campus following changes to Princeton’s Personal Electric Vehicle policy.

For the first time in three years, robbery was reported on campus, with two cases of robbery reported on campus in 2025. Cases of burglary and robbery increased, while some crimes like hate crimes and aggravated assault disappeared entirely in 2025. 

Six cases of rape were reported in 2025, a decrease from 10 in 2024 but equal to the number of cases reported in 2023. Statistics regarding sexual assault indicate only cases reported to University officials, and not those confidentially reported to campus resources such as licensed counselors and the Sexual Harrassment /Assault Advising, Resources and Education office.

Two instances of dating violence, one case of domestic violence, and eight cases of stalking were recorded in the report’s statistics for Violence Against Women Act offenses, with the number of incidents of dating violence decreasing, stalking increasing, and domestic violence staying the same in 2025. 

Three fires were reported in undergraduate buildings in 2025: one in Forbes College on Oct. 9, 2025, due to a paper plate left too close to a stove, one in Laughlin Hall on Jan. 20, 2025, due to a lithium-ion battery, and one in Wilf Hall on May 27, 2025, due to an accidentally turned-on stove. While the fire in Forbes College amounted to no property damage and less than $500 in fire damage was incurred in the Laughlin Hall fire, the fire in Wilf Hall was estimated to have caused between $1,500 and $2,500 in damages.

Three fires related to cooking in 2025 were also reported as occurring in Lakeside Apartments, which serve as graduate housing for the University. Two fires occurred on April 10, 2025, and another on Nov. 8, 2025, all amounting to less than $500 in property damages.

The Security and Fire Safety Report is published annually by Oct. 1.

Joshua Kim is a reporter-in-training for the ‘Prince’ from Auburn, Ala. He is a member of the Class of 2030. 

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