Report: Temple has fewer reported crimes than Penn

In a longform article called Crime & Campus by the Temple News, the university's independent news source found that Temple has a dramatically lower number of crimes reported than its Ivy League comrade, the University of Pennsylvania.

This difference, says Charlie Leone, executive director of campus safety services at Temple, is likely the result of Penn's larger patrol area. While Temple reported 600 crimes on its main campus in 2014, Penn reported 1,030 in the same time period, according to the Temple News' analysis of the Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting Act.

Temple's comparably lower number of crimes reported still doesn't mean the university is in the clear. The North Philadelphia-based university ranked second for the highest number of crimes reported out of six local universities, including Drexel, St. Joseph's, Penn, Villanova and La Salle.

The neighborhood in which Temple is located, the Temple News reported, had 1,300 documented criminal incidents in 2013, according to Temple's 2014 Security and Fire Safety Report.

Crime & Campus outlines various safety concerns and procedures at Temple University. It explores Temple's safety, as well as that of the surrounding community, and initiatives to improve community-student relations.