Crime

On-Campus Safety: The Facts

            CHATTANOOGA (mocsnews.com) – With daylight savings time making the days shorter and the nights longer, there is no better time to revisit the issue of on-campus safety. According to USA Today, on-campus crime has been rising steadily with an 8% increase from 2019 to 2022. With this increase, are …

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Baltimore block party shooting – two more teens arrested

By: Ellie Sudderth  BALTIMORE (mocsnews.com) – Baltimore authorities revealed Thursday afternoon that two additional adolescents have been detained in connection with a mass shooting that occurred earlier this summer during a block party in Brooklyn, Baltimore leaving two people dead and 28 others wounded. FILE – Tables are left on …

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What we should see we look at Gabby Petito

Chattanooga, Tenn. (mocsnews.com) — Recently Gabby Petito, the once missing “van life” blogger, was coined as “America’s Daughter”, which has brought awareness to how frequent women face Domestic Abuse in intimate relationships.  Petito disappeared while on a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie and was reported missing on …

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Shooting during protests leads to arrest

By: Noah Browne DENVER (AP) – Denver TV station security guard was jailed Sunday afternoon for investigation of a confrontation involving a firearm, resulting in the death of a protester during the “Patriot Rally” Saturday night.           The Patriot Rally was a right-wing event held simultaneously with the “BLM-Antifa Soup …

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Crime Goes Down at UTC

CHATTANOOGA, TENN (mocsnews.com) Since the Coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. in February of this year, reports of crime on campus have decreased, with sexual misconduct decreasing the most.     According to UTC’s 2019 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, from 2016 to 2018 there were 46 rapes, 23 aggravated assaults, 68 reports …

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