MIT Crime Club
Logo, referencing comic-strip detective Dick Tracy and MIT mascot Tim the Beaver | |
| Formation | 2005 |
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| Type | Student organization |
| Purpose | Improving general safety for MIT students |
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| Website | mitcrimeclub.org (archived) |
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.
In 2009 the club hired two private detectives to investigate the shooting of a local marijuana dealer at a Harvard residence hall. It later contributed to a Snapped: Killer Couples episode about the incident.