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  "id": "2024-04-23-columbia-university-robbery-robbery-west166st-04242024",
  "slug": "columbia-university-robbery-robbery-west166st-04242024-2024-04-23",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Columbia University",
    "shortName": "Columbia",
    "state": "NY",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "Columbia Public Safety Clery Alerts",
    "enrollment": 33000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-04-23",
    "type": "robbery",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Clery crime alert for a robbery near campus",
    "headlinePublic": "Clery crime alert for a robbery near campus",
    "summary": "Columbia Public Safety [issued a Clery crime alert PDF](https://web.archive.org/web/20240607225859/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W03_Clery_Robbery_West166St_04242024.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 2024-04-23",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Clery Crime Alert - Robbery\nOn April 23, 2024, NYPD reported that at approximately 3:30pm, on W. 166 St. and Audubon Avenue, the\nunknown person pictured below snatched a chain from a non-affiliate’s person causing injuries. If the\nidentity of the individual is known or if seen, please call 911 and Public Safety at 212-305-7979.\n\nPlease note – Clery Crime Alerts are distributed, pursuant to Federal Law, for specific crimes in defined\nlocations. They do not present, nor are they intended to present, a complete picture of crimes on campus.\n\nMichael Pellegrino Pedro Roche\nAssistant Director of Investigations Investigator\n212-853-3320 212-305-3493\nApril 24, 2024 Case # 24-001402",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240607225859/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W03_Clery_Robbery_West166St_04242024.pdf",
      "sourceDescription": "Columbia Public Safety Clery crime alert PDF via Wayback Machine",
      "annotations": [
        "pdftotext from official Clery PDF archived on Wayback; live host Cloudflare-blocks automated fetch"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "context": "On or about 2024-04-23, 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/20240607225859/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W03_Clery_Robbery_West166St_04242024.pdf) holds the public text.",
  "keyFindings": [
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    "Recovered via Wayback due to live 403"
  ],
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    {
      "title": "Clery crime alert PDF (Wayback)",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240607225859/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W03_Clery_Robbery_West166St_04242024.pdf",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Columbia Clery crime alerts index",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Columbia University",
      "url": "https://www.columbia.edu/",
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  "dateAdded": "2026-07-21",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-21",
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