YEEEEE D:

[elanya]

I always felt that crime in Greenville was a little out of control when I was there -there were a lot of muggings, and break in and entries, and convenience stations and restaurants getting held up. I mean *really* a lot. I remember looking at crime statistics on the city while I was there, and they were quite high for that kind of crime as compared to the national average (which reminds me, I should check out the B/CS stats). Campus had its own police force, even. We used to get alerts notifying us of crimes on an almost weekly basis. It was the only place I've lived that made me nervous walking on my own late at night.

This morning I got an e-mail on the alumni list informing me about a shooting - a student in the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds after a gang of four (or maybe six) people, armed with a gun, a shotgun, and a knife, and robbed ten people *at a party a block away from campus*. On Monday night.

D:

I should add that 4 suspects were rounded up within 5 min of the crime being reported, with two more arrested the next day. But still. I'm kind of in a 'how could that be allowed to happen!' sort of state. Also, following up from a post on speeding earlier this week by gwengothelf, I don't really see how their recommendations on safety really have any impact on this kind of crime. Don't walk alone at night? How is that going to stop a group (I hesitate to use the word 'gang' *really*) of armed people from crashing your party? Security cameras? Buses to and from campus and downtown at night? That shit is fine for mugging, but really that's not the problem here!

Bah.

Comments

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Well... They referred to this as a 'crime of opportunity' - the suspects were already armed, they saw a chance to make some quick cash, and they took it.

People having their houses broken into by armed people in Greenville is *not* uncommon.

People being mugged by armed men is Greenville is also not uncommon. It isn't common for people to get shot - in this case I suspect that alcohol was probably a factor :p

And I am accustomed at this point to the idea of campus police (though it was a new one on my at ECU), what really gets me, in regards to this being 'allowed' to hapen, is that they have yet to implement any *effective* strategy to reduce the over all crime rate both in the city, and in neighborhoods that are that close to campus. I knew people who lived in the area. Literally, once you got off the eastern end campus (and even in that end of campus), it really wasn't safe to go out at night.

It's clearly still a problem, and I guess we'll have to see whether they are able to do anything to reduce the crime at this point, or if it will keep getting worse.

[rumor-esq.livejournal.com]

The U.S. as a whole has failed to implement effective crime reduction strategies! There are some regional examples to the opposite, but they're just fighting the tide of misinformed policy...

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, Greenville is more personal to me, I think it's fair that my interest is more focused in its case ;p

what gets me about Greenville is that it is a college town, but it really doesn't act/feel like one in some ways...