Crime on campus this summer remained consistent with usual summer trends: the number of violations reported decreased in comparison to the school year and the types of offenses differed.

Alcohol violations were not as common, and bike theft, which has already heated up on campus since the start of school, was not an issue, said Director of Crime Prevention Andrew Atwood.

“There is a little difference in what we respond to (over the summer) because the bulk of our undergraduate population is not here,” Atwood said.

The summer community at Vanderbilt was mainly composed of faculty, staff, students taking summer classes and people attending summer conferences.

“We have a lot going on in the summer, but the population is transitory,” Atwood said.

Even though campus life changed during the summer, the number of Vanderbilt police officers on campus did not.

“We actually have the same staffing during the summer as we do any time of year,” Atwood said.

As a general consensus, students on campus over the summer felt just as safe as they do any other time of the year.

Freshman football player Garrett Snoeyenbos said his feeling of security did not change at all when he came to school early for preseason training.

Junior David Rodriguez agreed, saying he felt there was no difference in his safety while at the university in the summer months. He only remembered one serious incident from the summer, a robbery that occurred near Buttrick Hall when a victim was threatened by use of weapons.

Rodriguez said even over the summer he saw VUPD officers all around campus.

“I also saw them more around West End, like they were extending their perimeter around campus,” he said.