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[[File:Crime Club logo 2.png|thumb |alt=cartoon beaver in private-detective garb |MIT Crime Club logo]]
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This club is not an MIT student group and cannot use the MIT name. See: https://asa.mit.edu/groups/795/


The '''MIT Crime Club''' is a student group that was founded at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 2005 to provide data and technology for safeguarding persons or property.<ref name="cambridge">{{Cite report |date=Sept. 26, 2011 |title=Res. 37 |url=http://mitcrimeclub.org/camres37.pdf |publisher=Cambridge City Council |type=Resolution }}</ref> &nbsp;In 2009 it hired a private detective to investigate a murder in a Harvard dormitory.&nbsp; The detective and his companion were arrested by campus police.<ref name="nierstedt">{{cite news |title=Trespassing alleged at dorm |first=Jenna |last=Nierstedt |url=http://boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/02/two_charged_with_trespassing_at_harvard_dorm/?comments=all |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe|Boston Globe]] |date=June 2, 2009 |page=B7 |quote=An MIT crime club itself spawned criminal charges ….&nbsp; [The] investigators … were arrested … after … University police found the two taking photos inside the dorm ….&nbsp; An MIT spokeswoman said she knew of no school crime club. |archiveurl=http://www.upo.harvard.edu/library/clippings/05-20-09_06-03-09.pdf |archivedate=June 8, 2009 (at p. 16) |deadurl=no }}</ref><ref name="fargen">{{cite news |title=MIT kids send spies to Harvard: Slaying prompts closer study of campus security |first=Jessica |last=Fargen |url=http://bostonherald.com/print/1176418/ |newspaper=[[Boston Herald]] |date=June 3, 2009 |quote=[It] hired the [team] following the … murder of Justin Cosby, 21, who police say dealt drugs to Harvard students …. |page=2 |archiveurl=http://mitcrimeclub.org/herald09.pdf |archivedate=June 4, 2009 |deadurl=no }}</ref><ref name="schwartz">{{cite news|last=Schwartz |first=Jason |title= The Case of the Gumshoe Geeks: The curious MIT club that’s taken on a murder investigation as an afterschool project |newspaper=[[Boston (magazine)|Boston Magazine]] |pages=62–63 |date=Aug. 1, 2009 |url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_case_of_the_gumshoe_geeks/ }}</ref> &nbsp;The court dismissed the case.<ref name="sragow">{{cite court|litigants=Commonwealth v. Cadillic |opinion=No. 09-52CR1267 |pinpoint=Judgment of Dismissal |court=[[Massachusetts District Court|Mass. Dist. Ct.]] |date=dismissed July 28, 2009 |url=http://huspmgu.org/misc/JDismissalCadillic.pdf |quote=Motion to Dismiss is Allowed [granted]. }}</ref><ref name="pi">{{cite news |title=Charges dismissed against Massachusetts PI |url=http://mitcrimeclub.org/pimag09.pdf |newspaper=PI Magazine |location=Freehold, N.J. |date=Nov.–Dec. 2009 |quote=One apparent implication is that investigators may take photographs … without being subject to immediate arrest. |page=20 |archiveurl=http://pimagazine.epage-edition.com/pi_mag/nov_dec_2009_edition/contentC.xml |archivedate=Feb. 17, 2010 (p. 22) |deadurl=no }}</ref><ref name="convey">{{cite news |title=Private eye who probed Harvard shooting sues college |first=Eric |last=Convey |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2012/05/23/private-eye-who-probed-harvard.html |newspaper=[[Boston Business Journal]] |date=May 23, 2012 |quote=A [Cambridge District Court] judge dismissed the case against the Cadillics, they state …. |archiveurl=http://mitcrimeclub.org/private-eye-who-probed-harvard.html |archivedate=May 24, 2012 |deadurl=yes }}</ref> &nbsp;In 2011 the local city council voted to thank the club′s membership for achievements in promoting public safety.<ref name="cambridge" />
The '''MIT Crime Club''' is a student group that was founded at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 2005 to provide data and technology for safeguarding persons or property.<ref name="cambridge">{{Cite report |date=Sept. 26, 2011 |title=Res. 37 |url=http://mitcrimeclub.org/camres37.pdf |publisher=Cambridge City Council |type=Resolution }}</ref> &nbsp;In 2009 it hired a private detective to investigate a murder in a Harvard dormitory.&nbsp; The detective and his companion were arrested by campus police.<ref name="nierstedt">{{cite news |title=Trespassing alleged at dorm |first=Jenna |last=Nierstedt |url=http://boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/02/two_charged_with_trespassing_at_harvard_dorm/?comments=all |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe|Boston Globe]] |date=June 2, 2009 |page=B7 |quote=An MIT crime club itself spawned criminal charges ….&nbsp; [The] investigators … were arrested … after … University police found the two taking photos inside the dorm ….&nbsp; An MIT spokeswoman said she knew of no school crime club. |archiveurl=http://www.upo.harvard.edu/library/clippings/05-20-09_06-03-09.pdf |archivedate=June 8, 2009 (at p. 16) |deadurl=no }}</ref><ref name="fargen">{{cite news |title=MIT kids send spies to Harvard: Slaying prompts closer study of campus security |first=Jessica |last=Fargen |url=http://bostonherald.com/print/1176418/ |newspaper=[[Boston Herald]] |date=June 3, 2009 |quote=[It] hired the [team] following the … murder of Justin Cosby, 21, who police say dealt drugs to Harvard students …. |page=2 |archiveurl=http://mitcrimeclub.org/herald09.pdf |archivedate=June 4, 2009 |deadurl=no }}</ref><ref name="schwartz">{{cite news|last=Schwartz |first=Jason |title= The Case of the Gumshoe Geeks: The curious MIT club that’s taken on a murder investigation as an afterschool project |newspaper=[[Boston (magazine)|Boston Magazine]] |pages=62–63 |date=Aug. 1, 2009 |url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_case_of_the_gumshoe_geeks/ }}</ref> &nbsp;The court dismissed the case.<ref name="sragow">{{cite court|litigants=Commonwealth v. Cadillic |opinion=No. 09-52CR1267 |pinpoint=Judgment of Dismissal |court=[[Massachusetts District Court|Mass. Dist. Ct.]] |date=dismissed July 28, 2009 |url=http://huspmgu.org/misc/JDismissalCadillic.pdf |quote=Motion to Dismiss is Allowed [granted]. }}</ref><ref name="pi">{{cite news |title=Charges dismissed against Massachusetts PI |url=http://mitcrimeclub.org/pimag09.pdf |newspaper=PI Magazine |location=Freehold, N.J. |date=Nov.–Dec. 2009 |quote=One apparent implication is that investigators may take photographs … without being subject to immediate arrest. |page=20 |archiveurl=http://pimagazine.epage-edition.com/pi_mag/nov_dec_2009_edition/contentC.xml |archivedate=Feb. 17, 2010 (p. 22) |deadurl=no }}</ref><ref name="convey">{{cite news |title=Private eye who probed Harvard shooting sues college |first=Eric |last=Convey |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2012/05/23/private-eye-who-probed-harvard.html |newspaper=[[Boston Business Journal]] |date=May 23, 2012 |quote=A [Cambridge District Court] judge dismissed the case against the Cadillics, they state …. |archiveurl=http://mitcrimeclub.org/private-eye-who-probed-harvard.html |archivedate=May 24, 2012 |deadurl=yes }}</ref> &nbsp;In 2011 the local city council voted to thank the club′s membership for achievements in promoting public safety.<ref name="cambridge" />

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cartoon beaver in private-detective garb
MIT Crime Club logo

This club is not an MIT student group and cannot use the MIT name. See: https://asa.mit.edu/groups/795/

The MIT Crime Club is a student group that was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 to provide data and technology for safeguarding persons or property.[1]  In 2009 it hired a private detective to investigate a murder in a Harvard dormitory.  The detective and his companion were arrested by campus police.[2][3][4]  The court dismissed the case.[5][6][7]  In 2011 the local city council voted to thank the club′s membership for achievements in promoting public safety.[1]

History

The MIT Crime Club was founded in spring 2005[4] and became a recognized MIT student group on December 23, 2005.[8][9]

On June 2, 2009, a Boston Globe correspondent reported that MIT’s news office said that MIT did not know of any crime club at the school.[2] The publisher of MIT’s magazine asserted that “the Globe misrepresented” the office and that MIT did recognize the club.[10]

In Spring 2011, the group’s membership included seven MIT students and one Harvard student. The club is not currently an MIT-recognized student group, and has not been since mid 2011.[3][8]

Activities

The club compiles incident reports from police logs and constructs crime maps.[4]  Members have written weekly police-log compilations for MIT’s newspaper, The Tech.[11][12]

In 2005 the club began rebroadcasting Harvard, MIT, and City of Cambridge police radio transmissions online, on Radio WIGGUM.[13][14]

The club tried to develop an improvement on a saliva-alcohol test device used for measuring blood alcohol content.[4][15]

In April 2009 the club awarded an MIT dormitory a “Sparky the Fire Dog Award for Not Setting Off As Many Fire Alarms as Last Year.”[4][16]

In May 2009 the club hired a private detective to investigate security at Harvard two weeks after a drug dealer was shot to death in a controlled-access dormitory.  The detective and his companion were arrested by campus police on charges of breaking and entering and trespass.[2][3][4]  The court ruled that the prosecution did not have a case.[5][6][7]

Influence

In 2006 a former Club president became the Cambridge Chronicle’s first “Police Log Compiler for MIT and Harvard.”[17]

Eight months after the May 2009 murder investigation, Harvard students “looking to MIT’s Crime Club as an example” organized the Harvard College Crime Club.[18]  The Harvard club was recognized by the college’s Office of Student Life on November 19, 2010.[19]

In September 2011 the Cambridge City Council adopted a resolution thanking the group’s membership for serving as police log compilers at The Tech and the Chronicle, sponsoring bicycle theft-prevention workshops, and the like.

Club members have for six years furnished MIT students with technology and data of value in safeguarding their persons and property.…  The City Council … thank[s] the … Campus Crimestoppers for their achievements in making their campus and the City … a safer … environment for students.[1]

The club is responsible for maintaining the huspmgu.org site,[20] which is cited by Harvard Labor Relations as the official website of the Harvard University Security, Parking, and Museum Guards Union.[21]

Finances

The club has used donations from MIT alumni[4] and disbursements by MIT’s Association of Student Activities[15] to pay its project expenses.  The MIT Alumni Association maintains an “MIT Crime Club Fund” that supports its initiatives.[22]

References

  1. ^ a b c Res. 37 (PDF) (Resolution). Cambridge City Council. Sept. 26, 2011. {{cite report}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ a b c Nierstedt, Jenna (June 2, 2009). "Trespassing alleged at dorm" (PDF). Boston Globe. p. B7. Archived from the original on June 8, 2009 (at p. 16). An MIT crime club itself spawned criminal charges ….  [The] investigators … were arrested … after … University police found the two taking photos inside the dorm ….  An MIT spokeswoman said she knew of no school crime club. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b c Fargen, Jessica (June 3, 2009). "MIT kids send spies to Harvard: Slaying prompts closer study of campus security" (PDF). Boston Herald. p. 2. Archived from the original on June 4, 2009. [It] hired the [team] following the … murder of Justin Cosby, 21, who police say dealt drugs to Harvard students …. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Schwartz, Jason (Aug. 1, 2009). "The Case of the Gumshoe Geeks: The curious MIT club that's taken on a murder investigation as an afterschool project". Boston Magazine. pp. 62–63. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ a b Commonwealth v. Cadillic, No. 09-52CR1267, Judgment of Dismissal (Mass. Dist. Ct. dismissed July 28, 2009) ("Motion to Dismiss is Allowed [granted].").
  6. ^ a b "Charges dismissed against Massachusetts PI". PI Magazine. Freehold, N.J. Nov.–Dec. 2009. p. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on Feb. 17, 2010 (p. 22). One apparent implication is that investigators may take photographs … without being subject to immediate arrest. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= and |archivedate= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ a b Convey, Eric (May 23, 2012). "Private eye who probed Harvard shooting sues college". Boston Business Journal. Archived from the original on May 24, 2012. A [Cambridge District Court] judge dismissed the case against the Cadillics, they state …. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ a b "Crime Club, MIT". Association of Student Activities. MIT. Jan. 23, 2012. MIT Student Groups.  4 Undergraduates · 3 Graduate Students · 2 MIT Community · 1 Other {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ ASA Executive Board (Apr. 19, 2005). "Minutes" (PDF). Association of Student Activities. MIT. Voting on groups {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Jason Pontin, Publisher, MIT Tech. Rev. (June 2, 2009). "E-mail to MIT Crime Club" (PDF). We cannot comment any more to the press about this matter – although we agree, of course, that the Globe misrepresented [the News Office spokeswoman].{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Rafat, Marjan (Feb. 10, 2006). "Police log" (PDF). The Tech. MIT. p. 17. Compiled … with assistance from other members of the MIT Crime Club. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ "25 colleges with the worst crime rankings". The Daily Beast. New York. Sept. 16, 2010. Gallery, no. 5. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "Harvard radio stations". SHOUTcast radio directory. Nullsoft. Retrieved Jan. 9, 2012. Harvard & MIT police - Radio WIGGUM - MIT Crime Club scanner {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  14. ^ MIT Crime Club. "MIT Crime Club police-radio scanner". Retrieved Jan. 9, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  15. ^ a b Maurer, Sam (Nov. 1, 2005). "MIT Marching Band blog entry". MIT Admissions Office. MIT. (para. 17). {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)  See generally Conforming Products List of Screening Devices To Measure Alcohol in Bodily Fluids (PDF) (Regulation). Vol. 74. Fed. Reg. (Dec. 15, 2009). p. 66398. [This] saliva-alcohol screening device … cannot exceed storage temperatures of 27 °C. {{cite report}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ "2008 Sparky the Fire Dog Award" (PDF). MIT Crime Club. Apr. 30, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ "Crime Watch". Cambridge Chronicle. Sept. 14, 2006. p. 5. Marjan Rafat, police log compiler for MIT and Harvard. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ Yu, Xi (Jan. 30, 2010). "CSI: Harvard". The Harvard Crimson Flyby Blog. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ "Harvard College Crime Club". Student organizations. Harvard Univ. Faculty of Arts & Sciences. Sept. 15, 2011. Harvard College Crime Club is an autonomous organization …. {{cite web}}: |archive-url= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= and |archivedate= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ "HUSPMGU". Harvard University Security, Parking & Museum Guards Union. 2006. MIT Crime Club … has sole responsibility for maintaining [this] site.
  21. ^ "Campus Unions: Harvard University Security, Parking and Museum Guards Union". Harvard Labor Relations. Harvard. 2011. Useful Links: HUSPMGU Website
  22. ^ "MIT Crime Club Fund". Giving to MIT. MIT. Designation:  MIT Crime Club Fund (2721276).  Gifts to support the club's public-safety initiatives.

External links

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