Texas Tech University’s police department
takes hate crimes very seriously regardless of the circumstances.
Lieutenant Amy Ivey, a Texas Tech police officer,
said she wants people to know what they’re getting themselves into when they commit a hate crime.
“It’s something that law enforcement takes
very seriously, and will investigate to the fullest,” Ivey said. “Especially racially or gender motivated [hate crimes].”
Ivey said when a person mentions a hate crime,
they are reported like any other crime on campus.
“It’s just not something you want to get yourself
into or commit,” Ivey said.
Texas Tech hasn’t dealt with a false police
report on hate crimes, but she said she wants people to know there are consequences.
“Once we investigate it to the fullest, and
we know that they are 100-percent falsely reporting a crime, it’s something that they can get charged with perjury,” Ivey said.
According to Texas Tech campus crime statistics,
there were reports of two racially charged vandalism cases, four intimidation cases and one assault between
2015 to 2017. Tech Police must
follow a transparency act know as the Jeanne Clery Act, where they must disclose all information about crime on campus.
“We report certain crimes to the Clery act
and there’s a whole section that we provide with the hate crimes,” Ivey said. “When they report them we investigate them like any other crime on campus.”
All currently enrolled students or prospective
students are entitled to request a copy of the annual campus security policy and campus crime statistics report.
Also, here is a link to the daily crime log:
www.depts.ttu.edu/ttpd/daily/
