Approximately 400 Mercer students, faculty and staff marched through campus Sept. 4 protesting racism and police brutality in Mercer’s first Equal Justice March and Vigil. Afterwards, over 100 demonstrators gathered in Willingham Hall for a rally and vigil where protest organizers read the names of Black people killed in high-profile instances of police brutality and racism in efforts to raise greater awareness of racism in America.
This semester, Mercer Police responded to numerous incidents on and around campus. Kyle Sears, director of media relations at Mercer University, provided redacted police reports.
There are currently 21 students who have been barred from parking on Mercer’s campus. Mercer’s Chief of Police said that students can be restricted from parking in certain places on campus after accumulating too many parking tickets in a single semester.
After being followed across campus by a stranger at 2 a.m., I asked Mercer Police if the office had collected any data on similar student experiences and asked two women about navigating Macon at night.
Mercer University Police, or Merpo, have responded to student concerns throughout the semester about parking rules and tickets on campus.
In an email to students March 8, Merpo said that fines were...
A Mercer student reported being the victim of simple battery this summer when an unknown suspect entered his dorm room and placed a pair of men’s underwear over his face before striking him.
A Mercer student reported that she was sexually assaulted April 9 at one of the Mercer loft buildings.
According to the Mercer police report filed April 11, they were dispatched to the Medical Center...
Mercer University students were targets in a string of weekend crimes following Bearstock Saturday April 9.
The most violent involved a Mercer University student being robbed at gunpoint inside...
A Mercer University student was robbed at gunpoint inside of his room at the 1503 Garden Apartments Saturday night.
Two men entered the on-campus apartment around 11:30 p.m. and the pair made off with...
The past month has been a quiet one for the Mercer Police department. From Feb. 15 to March 16, only three criminal incidents were reported. Two of the three crimes were thefts by taking.
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The Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill Feb. 22 to legalize the carry of concealed weapons on public college campuses.
Bill 859, otherwise known as “Campus Carry,” allows any student...
Tonia Wilkes faces high-stress situations working as a Mercer Police dispatcher, but her own life experiences have taught her how to cope with crisis.
Wilkes opened up about the most difficult thing...
