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Last Monday, HUPD issued a four-page warning in response to three specific crimes. The crime which seems to be the main impetus for the warning was the rape of a female student sometime in September in the area between the Weeks Footbridge and the Weld Boathouse. The two other incidents mentioned were the following of a female jogger along Memorial Drive and the assault and robbery of a Mather House resident near Mather...
...begin with, an announcement should also have been made after the initial and worst crime, the rape, became known to Harvard. This was a terrible and bold crime which occurred in broad daylight in a well-traveled and open area. According to a release issued by the Harvard News Office in response to the HUPD release, HUPD waited to issue the warning until the following of the female jogger because it felt that there might be a pattern...
...this rationale, another rape might have occurred before the first one became generally known. The police should have issued a warning as soon as they knew of the rape. This begs the question: when exactly did the police know of the rape? This is difficult to answer because Harvard. Police Chief Paul E. Johnson refused to comment on this. He instead referred queries to the Harvard News Office. Joseph Wrinn, Director of the News Office, also refused to say anything beyond what was in the safety advisory itself. That the police may have buried news of the incident...
Best evidence seems to indicate that HUPD was not aware that a rape had occurred until the beginning of October, because the State Police originally handled the crime. This leaves a full month between confirmation of rape and the issuance of the advisory. In this time countless students have walked and jogged unaware through the crime scene...
...attack last week occurred on the same day Harvard University Police Chief Paul E. Johnson released a security alert to the Harvard community warning of three attacks in recent weeks in the same vicinity, including a rape in early September...