MIT Crime Club

MIT Crime Club
Formation2005 (2005)
TypeStudent organization
PurposeImproving general safety for MIT students[1]
Location
Websitemitcrimeclub.org

The MIT Crime Club was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student group known for its attempts to develop technological solutions to crime problems and for its unauthorized investigation of a murder in a Harvard dorm. It was established in 2005 to undertake campus-safety projects and raise awareness of campus and neighborhood crime. The group rebroadcast police radio transmissions online, assembled police-log compilations, and constructed crime maps.[2]

In 2009 the club hired two private detectives to investigate the murder of a drug dealer in a Harvard residence hall. The detectives were arrested and prosecuted;[3] the case was dismissed before trial.[4] The club later contributed to a Snapped: Killer Couples television episode about the murder.[5]

  1. ^ "The MIT Crime Club Constitution" (PDF). 2005. Art. I. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-02-03. The founders of the MIT Crime Club are dedicated to improving general safety for MIT students, both on and off campus.
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