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]

yeah...

The rape stats get even scarier when you include Bryan, which you really have to, they are separate in the same way that Kitchener and Waterloo are separate. Bryan is 3.29 times the national average. Education will account for some of that, sure, but that is still quite high!

[rumor-esq.livejournal.com]

A population made up almost completely of twenty-something college students is going to have a high rape rate AND a high reportage rate. It stands to reason.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Except in Greenville :V

[rumor-esq.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, the other two categories of violent crime are way above average in Greenville.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

That was exactly my point :V

[rumor-esq.livejournal.com]

...And way below average in CS.

[rumor-esq.livejournal.com]

Really, Greenville seems worse all around except for the quite low forcible rape rate. That's hard to explain. Maybe it really is a reporting problem in Greenville.

[forthright.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Intuitively that does seem too high to be just an artifact of reporting rates. But you live in College Station itself, right?

So is the equation Waterloo:College Station :: Kitchener:Bryan? Because, you know, Kitchener can be kind of a hole.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

As soon as I posted it, i was regretting the comparison.

Kitchener has more of its own industry than Bryan, which is mostly a satellite community supported by the university.

CS doesn't really have it's own town center, though - the closest we come is Northgate, which is really more the restaurant/bar district pretty much right outside of campus where the residences are, hmmm... The real 'downtown' area is in Bryan (I think - I've been there all of twice :p). Bryan is a bit more ghetto (cheaper housing attracting more students, older neighborhoods, etc) in some ways, maybe, but not as bad as Kitchener!

[elanya.livejournal.com]

And yes, I do live in CS proper ;)