Posted on 08/21/2014 9:47:28 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Quick: name some places in America you regard as highly dangerous. If we could tabulate the responses, nearly all would undoubtedly be big cities or parts of those cities: Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Philadelphia and so on. We know that crime rates are high in some areas and most of us avoid them for that reason.
Did anyone think of college campuses? Even though violence does sometimes strike on campuses, they are mostly very safe places. As Jason Jones noted in this 2010 Pope Center commentary, in 2008 Detroit reported 306 murders and 17,818 burglaries. Wayne State University, located in Detroit, had no murders and just 45 burglaries.
Wayne State, of course, wasn’t perfectly safe. No place can be assumed to be an absolutely safe haven from crime. It was, however, vastly safer than the city as a whole. That is true for colleges and universities generally. People are much less at risk on campus than are residents of the city where it’s located.
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The sludge doing most of the crime is not normally going to be on campus. This is especially true at a college or university where they would be expected to work and not obtain a free ride.
Urban campuses are not always as safe as others.
While college campues are beautifully verdant, and almost always extremely scenic, they are NOT immune from crime. While the deranged mass-shooters get gallons of ink, the drug-traffickers, thieves, con-artists, perverts, and rapists all go unreported. College campuses are like barrels, with all the “fish” being the naive, young, and unarmed coeds who are finally out from under the parents` protective wings, armed with MUCH more money than sense. Nevertheless, NO ONE can wrap their heads around the fact that college campuses are criminal MAGNETS. I do so WISH that people would just QUIT being so damn naive!
They are away from their parents for the first time. These are parents who are themselves so out of touch with the realities of the world that they don't properly instruct their children on how to deal with their new independence.
Of course many of them are Liberal and refuse to let their children even DREAM that some elements of this society are NOT wholesome... and are downright dangerous.
But that would be ‘profiling’. OOOOOPS!
So they play craps with their kids’ lives rather than tell them the truth.
Our suburban college campus banned guns recently and since they did, I don’t get out of my car.
Free speech can be dangerous. Is the 1st amendment next?
(Yeah right, tumblindice: universities are “marketplaces of ideas”. Heh.)
I’m afraid The Clery Act is just another minor hurdle school administrators use to practice deceiving Congress and the public, regardless of the letter or intent of the law.
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