Even without previous knowledge of UI’s physical layout, it’s easy to see that there were quite a few arrests made in 2013 in and around its campus. In fact, there were 1,314 arrests, consisting of 1,820 charges (sometimes arrests entail multiple charges, i.e. the shameful combination of, say, public intoxication and public urination). For each recorded drug-related charge, there were five alcohol-related ones and, although not all arrests involved drinking or drugs, most of them did (77%, to be precise).

Although UI’s crime log is quite detailed, it doesn’t specifically state the enrollment status of those arrested. Despite this, UI’s annual crime report does state that 46% of arrestees in 2013 were UI students. This equates to many of those listed in the 2013 crime log being non-students. A few examples obviously weren’t, like those whose ages are listed as being over 40, 50, and even 70. To filter out a lot of these types of non-students, we only mapped and graphed arrests of people aged 18 to 25 (the age-range of three quarters of the UI student body). That doesn’t guarantee, however, that all of the young people arrested (and whose arrests are shown as dots on the map above) were UI students. The ones who most likely were students can be seen in the drug-related arrests (shown as blue dots), because almost all of them are clustered around UI’s residence halls on either side of the river. Even Mayflower Hall, shown right at the top of the map, has a considerable number of drug-related arrests, despite being quite far out from the main campus boundary.