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  "id": "2024-07-01-columbia-university-burglary-burglary-195claremont-549rsd-2024-07-01",
  "slug": "columbia-university-burglary-burglary-195claremont-549rsd-2024-07-01-2024-07-01",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Columbia University",
    "shortName": "Columbia",
    "state": "NY",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "Columbia Public Safety Clery Alerts",
    "enrollment": 33000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-07-01",
    "type": "burglary",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Clery crime alert for a burglary near campus",
    "headlinePublic": "Clery crime alert for a burglary near campus",
    "summary": "Columbia Public Safety [issued a Clery crime alert PDF](https://web.archive.org/web/20250101021134/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W12_Clery_Burglary_195Claremont&549RSD_2024-07-01.pdf) recovered via Wayback. Full text preserved from the official flyer.",
    "outcome": "See the Clery crime alert for investigation status and safety guidance.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Published as Columbia Clery crime alert around 2024-07-01",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Clery Crime Alert\nBurglary\nOn Monday, July 1, 2024, at around 4:30 p.m. a Burglary occurred at 195 Claremont Ave and 549 Riverside Drive at the\nMorningside Campus.\n\nThe complainant, a Columbia University Student, reported that his 2 packages were missing. CCTV shows an individual\nentering the building by \"piggybacking\" their way inside. Once inside the individual removed several packages without\npermission or authority to do so. The individual is also responsible for a burglary that occurred on June 2, 2024, at the same\nlocation at 10:00 p.m.\n\nThe incident was reported to Columbia University’s Department of Public Safety on Monday, July 1, 2024, at around 8:30 p.m.\nIf you have any additional information about this incident, please contact the Department of Public Safety at 212-854-2797.\n\nThe suspect is described as male-presenting and light complexioned and wore red shorts with a red T-shirt and green\ncamouflage baseball hat and carried a blue shopping bag and dark colored backpack.\n\nSafety Tips\n\n· Do not allow others in “piggyback” behind you into a secure location even if they look like they are\ndelivering food or other materials to someone else in the building.\n· Please try to retrieve your packages in a timely manner.\n· Do not buzz people into a building unless you know who they are and what they are doing.\n\nDisclaimer: Clery Crime Alerts (Timely Warning/Notifications) are distributed pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of\nCampus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. Columbia University is required to alert the campus community\nwhen certain crimes occur in our Clery Act defined campuses that represent a serious or continuous threat to the community.\n\nTo see this and other Clery Crime Alerts please visit our Public Safety Website. For more information about Columbia\nUniversity’s Clery Act compliance efforts, please contact the Department’s Clery Act Compliance Director, Roberto A. Pineda\nSanchez at rp3240@columbia.edu.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250101021134/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W12_Clery_Burglary_195Claremont&549RSD_2024-07-01.pdf",
      "sourceDescription": "Columbia Public Safety Clery crime alert PDF via Wayback Machine",
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  "context": "On or about 2024-07-01, Columbia Public Safety published a Clery crime alert flyer. Live [index](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts) is Cloudflare-restricted to bots; [Wayback PDF](https://web.archive.org/web/20250101021134/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W12_Clery_Burglary_195Claremont&549RSD_2024-07-01.pdf) holds the public text.",
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    "Official Clery PDF with complete text",
    "Recovered via Wayback due to live 403"
  ],
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      "title": "Clery crime alert PDF (Wayback)",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250101021134/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W12_Clery_Burglary_195Claremont&549RSD_2024-07-01.pdf",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Columbia Clery crime alerts index",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts",
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  "confidence": "high",
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  "dateAdded": "2026-07-21",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-21",
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