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Temple University's new safety app, TUSafe, launches Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. The app, a customized version of AppArmor, allows students to more easily report crimes, contact police and request walking escorts. The app is Temple's latest effort to improve safety following a string of violent crimes committed near main campus in recent years. On Sunday, a female student was carjacked near her off-campus apartment, police said.
Aggravated assaults, which include shootings in which the victim does not die, fell from 31 for the first five months of 2022, to 18 over the last five months, the university said.
"We have work rules that all police officers are aware of and required to follow,” the university said. “.we take violations of these values and rules extremely seriously."
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