Last month, Reed released its 2026 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (ASFSR), providing information on crime and fire safety for the 2025 calendar year. Reed is required by the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (the Clery Act) to release information on crime on or near campus. The Clery Act is a federal mandate for colleges participating in the federal student financial aid program. The report itself details standard safety procedures for varying emergencies; policies on topics such as security, drug use, hazing, crime, and fire statistics for the past three years; and other related information. These statistics document confirmed and reported cases of crime, so they may not necessarily represent all incidents that happened.
The 2025 statistics are largely similar in numbers to the 2024 ones, but both years noticeably differ from 2023. The most significant change between 2024 and 2025 is the number of reported hate crimes, followed by referrals for liquor and drug law violations.
The amount of reported hate crimes in 2024 was eight, which is very notable when compared to 0 reported in 2023. In 2025, the number of reports dropped down to two for the whole year. According to the ASFSR, both instances this year “involved vandalism in the form of defacing posters in common spaces”.
Referrals for liquor law violations decreased from 39 in 2023, 35 in 2024, and 25 in 2025. Referrals for drug law violations dropped from 51 in 2023, 35 in 2024, and 21 in 2025. Over the three years of reports, referrals for liquor law violations dropped by 14, and drug law violations by 30. The ASFSR asserts that this does not necessarily mean that the amount of drug and liquor law violations has decreased. The reason offered by the ASFSR for this decline in referrals may be “the broader availability of cannabis products that allows for discrete possession and use, such as edibles, has increased. This has more likely than not resulted in the continued trend of fewer on campus disciplinary referrals issued for underage cannabis possession and use.”
Compared to the nine reported sex offenses in 2024, the number of reports in 2025 remained similar at eight, with seven reports of rape and one instance of fondling. These are both higher than the four instances reported in 2023.
There were six reports of arson in 2025, a slight decrease from the eight instances in 2024 but an overall increase from the two in 2023. Arson as defined in the ASFSR includes “any instance of fires set intentionally in areas not intended to hold fires.” Some of the incidents from 2025 include two instances of campfires “built in an outdoor area on campus not designed to hold fire.” Additionally, “an individual was interrupted during an attempt to set a group of bushes on fire,” and “[a] student used a piece of paper as a match extender to light a candle in their residence hall unit.”
Aside from a few outliers such as reported hate crimes and illegal drug use, the 2025 crime rates remain relatively similar to the previous year. Anyone who wishes to view the ASFSR for themself is able to access it via the Reed website under Community Safety.