Stalcommpol Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public-service organization whose members have been actively working to improve college students’ security since March 2003. See also our 2006 Narrative Description of Activities (Form 1023, pt. IV) [80k pdf] and our current research projects list.
• We’ve been sponsoring action-research projects with the goal of effectively eliminating drug rape on Boston-area campuses: Undergraduate research-project associates Brittan Smith at Harvard and Mer Villapando at Boston Univ. shared the Spring 2007 Dru Campaign Scholarship Award for their efforts to give students access to a disposable test kit (the Drink Detective™) that detects the presence of “rape drugs” (ketamine, GHB, or benzodiazepines) in beverages. We would like to thank Harvard University for its constructive support of Britt’s efforts and for its receptiveness to letting this controversial issue be raised and definitively addressed on its campus. (Compare Man Charged [by Cambridge Police] with Drugging Woman's Coffee with Sleeping Pill (Sept. 21, 2007).)
• A Boston Globe newswriter credits us with making Harvard update its crime-reporting practices! In July 2004, the university finally began listing dates, times, and general locations of crimes reported on campus. The revised format lets community members and the student press know the general location of the crime, as well as the precise date and time it occurred. (What the university had previously been giving out was the location of the reporting person—typically the victim or a voluntary witness—at the time he or she reported the incident.)
• In Aug. 2006 the Cambridge Chronicle, “America’s oldest weekly newspaper,” invited members of the MIT Crime Club and Stalcommpol Inc. to serve as its first Police Log Compilers for MIT and Harvard. Our contributions to “Crime Watch” have also appeared in TownOnline; and one particularly trenchant item (about a security problem in Harvard Yard) was read over the air by Howie Carr.
• Our web designers at MIT created the official website of the Harvard University Security, Parking, and Museum Guards Union, founded in 1996 by the university’s own security workers (who did so without having to rely on an unaffiliated international).
• In response to the lack of personal-safety devices that work reliably and effectively when carried by an inexperienced college freshman, we collaborated with two MIT undergraduates on a sponsored project to create an acoustoelectronic device that appears to repel both animal and human predators. See MIT Venture Mentoring Serv. Venture Info. Form (2007) [29k pdf].
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Several of our intrepid research associates have gone on to paid internships or career positions at Homeland Security, Bain, Boston Consulting, Goldman Sachs, Harvard School of Public Health, and other prominent organizations. If interested in creating a safer environment on campus, see our jobs page.
Stalcommpol Inc. is a supporting member of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.
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